October 24, 20244 min readThe Daring Russian Geneticist Whose Experiments on Silver Foxes Explained Domestication Has DiedLyudmila Trut devoted her life to studying the process of domestication by selectively breeding friendly foxesBy Lee Alan Dugatkin & Aaron Dugatkin Lyudmila Trut,...
October 24, 20242 min readAnyone Can Learn Echolocation in Just 10 Weeks—And It Remodels Your BrainHuman echolocation repurposes parts of the brain’s visual cortex for sound, even in sighted peopleBy Simon Makin Human echolocation has at times allowed people to...
Here is a recipe for a thought-provoking, if not wholly appetising, snack: slice up a large tomato and pour over five or six tablespoons of your favourite cooking oil. Depending on where you got your tomato, that oil represents roughly...
The probability that one word will follow another can be used to create a watermark for AI-generated textVikram Arun/Shutterstock Google has been using artificial intelligence watermarking to automatically identify text generated by the company’s Gemini chatbot, making it easier to...
Using DNA for data storage just got much more efficientErkmen Design/Alamy DNA has been used for years to store data, but encoding information into the molecule is painstaking work. Now, researchers have drastically sped it up by mimicking a natural...
Adding blade-like sails to tankers could reduce their annual fuel consumption by up to 30 per cent, slashing the climate impact of the shipping industry Source link...
By . In celebration of contemporary spoken-word performance by women and nonbinary artists, join us for an evening of short performances by established and emerging poets. Source link...
By . In celebration of contemporary spoken-word performance by women and non-binary artists, join us for an evening of short performances by established and emerging poets. Source link...
Please join us for a day-long festival of readings from works that perform democratic processes; panels with artists whose practices rehearse and represent democratic ideals; and artist-led workshops that provide tools for creating theater that uplifts, rehearses, and performs democracy.The...
Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been called the Silk Road, archaeologists are uncovering two medieval cities that may have bustled with inhabitants a thousand years ago.A team first noticed one of the lost cities...
