October 31, 20242 min readThe Universe in 100 Colors Provides a Stunning Tour through ScienceA science photo book probes the colors we can see—and even “forbidden” colors we can’tBy Sarah Lewin FrasierA simulation of Vantablack on half of a cicada....
James Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust AdVerts FRom HeLl Feedback is often both baffled and intrigued by the tricks advertisers will pull to try to sell things, but the latest gambit seems designed to wrong-foot: deliberately odd capitalisation and bad grammar....
James Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust When my ginger rescue cat Marmalade crawls on my lap and meows at me urgently, I often find myself wishing I really knew what was going on inside his head. It might seem like storybook...
Orcas in the Sea of Okhotsk, off Russia’s Kamchatka peninsulaJames Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust Orca – Black & White GoldSarah NörenbergTerra Mater Factual Studios Distribution pending When it comes to orcas, also known as killer whales, films such as the...
The US government uses census data to distribute resources fairlyValentyn Semenov/Alamy A change to the US government’s system for processing the census could improve the accuracy of publicly disclosed data – without compromising the privacy of individual citizens and residents....
“Alas, poor ape, how thou sweat’st!”Colin Waters/Alamy If every chimpanzee on Earth was given a typewriter, they would not reproduce the works of Shakespeare even if they kept on typing until the heat death of the universe, researchers have calculated....
The Renaissance artist Michelangelo had carried out human dissections, which may have led him to include women with breast cancer in some of his pieces Source link...
The US government uses census data to distribute resources fairlyValentyn Semenov/Alamy A change to the US government’s system for processing the census could improve the accuracy of publicly disclosed data – without compromising the privacy of individual citizens and residents....
Mapping tumours and the genetic changes within them could help develop new cancer treatmentsSipa Press/Alamy We now have some of the most detailed maps ever made of several cancers, along with new tools and methods for analysing them. The findings...
Scientists found the fossil in Santa Cruz province, ArgentinaMariana Chuliver et al., Journal (2024) An exquisitely preserved fossilised tadpole is the oldest ever discovered by science, dating back 161 million years, with an anatomy that is strikingly similar to some...
