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• Virtual reality warps your sense of time
• Mammals can use their intestines to breathe
• Charting the expansion history of the universe with supernovae

Virtual reality warps your sense of time Posted: 14 May 2021 10:42 AM PDT Psychology researchers found that playing games in virtual reality creates an effect called 'time compression,' where time goes by faster than you think. The research team compared time perception during gameplay using conventional monitors and virtual reality to determine that this effect is uniquely linked to the virtual reality format.

Mammals can use their intestines to breathe Posted: 14 May 2021 10:42 AM PDT Rodents and pigs share with certain aquatic organisms the ability to use their intestines for respiration, finds a study publishing May 14th in the journal Med. The researchers demonstrated that the delivery of oxygen gas or oxygenated liquid through the rectum provided vital rescue to two mammalian models of respiratory failure.

Charting the expansion history of the universe with supernovae Posted: 14 May 2021 10:35 AM PDT An international research team analyzed a database of more than 1000 supernova explosions and found that models for the expansion of the Universe best match the data when a new time dependent variation is introduced. If proven correct with future, higher-quality data from the Subaru Telescope and other observatories, these results could indicate still unknown physics working on the cosmic scale.

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