This article is part of “Innovations In: Solutions for Health Equity,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Takeda Pharmaceuticals.Once a week, early in the morning, community health worker Kiden Josephine Francis Laja mounts her...
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Long ago we humans defined a day as the time it takes Earth to make one rotation about its axis, with one sunrise and one sunset. Our predecessors partitioned that day into 24 hours. But if Earth’s rotation slows down...
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Every once in a great while paleontological fieldwork turns up a fossil so extraordinary that it revolutionizes our understanding of the origin and evolution of an entire branch of the tree of life. Fifty years ago one of us (Johanson)...
October 15, 20242 min readHidden Patterns in Folk Songs Reveal How Music EvolvedSongs and speech across cultures suggest music developed similar features around the worldBy Allison Parshall, Duncan Geere & Miriam Quick Duncan Geere and Miriam Quick from Loud NumbersHumans...
Fifteen years ago cosmologists were flying high. The simple but wildly successful “standard model of cosmology” could, with just a few ingredients, account for a lot of what we see in the universe. It seemed to explain the distribution of...
