WEIRD SCIENCE
More than 500 people were hospitalized after powerful thunderstorms drove scorpions from their burrows and into residential houses in the city of Aswan. Mohamed Hamdy Boshta holds a scorpion, one of many that he hunts on Egyptian deserts and shores to extract their …
Thousands of the satellites orbiting Earth are small – like this cubical satellite seen here being released from the International Space Station. NASA, CC BY-NC – By Supriya Chakrabarti, Professor of Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell 2021 Sep 17 – – It seems …
Without fungi we don’t have bread, chocolate, cheese, soy sauce, beer or wine. They are also crucial to protecting our climate. ‘Fungi are responsible for almost all our food production, and most of our processed materials. They can also be thanked for many …
People walk down a flooded sidewalk in Annapolis, Maryland, on 2021 Oct 29. AP Photo/Susan Walsh – By Jianjun Yin, Associate Professor of Geoscience, University of Arizona Updated 2021 Nov 06 – The U.S. East Coast has been experiencing hurricane-like flooding in recent days, …
It involves a bug collector, a grumpy Englishman, and the world’s worst bus route. Graphic courtesy of ScienceAlert.Com– https://youtu.be/aWAXuhegaFk?list=TLGG_M0BIZ0RRnswNzExMjAyMQ – 2021 Nov Script Sources Delve Deeper Bonus Content Click to reveal bonus content (fun facts and additional insights) within script. Bonus Content Benjamin Franklin. Kaiser …
An organic food market in Berlin. Schöning/ullstein bild via Getty Images – By Kathleen Merrigan, Executive Director, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Arizona State University 2021 Nov 03 – President Joe Biden has called for an all-of-government response to climate change that looks …
In a still from a MyHeritage.com video, Abraham Lincoln chats about how he colored and sharpened old family photos to bring them to life. MyHeritage – By Nir Eisikovits, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, University of Massachusetts Boston 2021 …
Three upright walkers, including Lucy (center) and two specimens of Australopithecus sediba, a human ancestor from South Africa dating back nearly 2 million years. Image compiled by Peter Schmid and courtesy of Lee R. Berger/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA – By Jan Simek, Professor of …
Everything you need to know about the Glasgow conference seeking to forge a global response to the climate emergency. Under the 2015 Paris climate accord, nations committed to restricting global temperature rises to ‘well below’ 2C. Composite: AP/Guardian Design Your Cop26 jargon buster …
Prof Stuart Russell says field of artificial intelligence needs to grow up quickly to ensure humans remain in control. There is still a big gap between the AI of today and that depicted in films such as Ex Machina, Prof Stuart Russell says. …
