[ad_1] artifact: Some human-made object (such as a pot or brick) that can be used as one gauge of a community’s culture or history. atom: (adj. atomic) The basic unit of a chemical element. Atoms are made up of a dense nucleus that contains positively charged protons and uncharged neutrons. The nucleus is orbited by…
[ad_1] New research from the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine suggests that the children younger than age 5 who are infected with the COVID-19 Omicron variant have less risk of severe health outcomes than those infected with the Delta variant. The study, published Friday in JAMA Pediatrics, is the first large-scale research…
[ad_1] Efforts to undermine independent vaccine manufacturing in Africa will only prolong the social and economic costs of the pandemic. Safe and effective vaccines against COVID-19 were brought to the market in record time following the onset of the pandemic. However, the virus has spread faster than vaccine distribution can keep up, with the vast…
[ad_1] If humanity had started to bend the greenhouse gas emissions curve downward 20 years ago, an annual decrease of two percent out to 2030 would have put us on the right path. To save the world from the worst ravages of climate change, slashing carbon pollution is no longer enough—CO2 will also need to…
[ad_1] The Goldilocks zone gets its name from the fairy tale, “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”. Goldilocks is a fussy little girl whose porridge has to be just right — neither too hot nor too cold. It’s the same with life itself — or at least, the kind of water-based life we’re familiar with on…
[ad_1] Corvids such as rooks and crows seem to have a unusually high number of interneurons, brain cells involved in processing information Life 1 April 2022 By Jason Arunn Murugesu A carrion crow (Corvus corone) Shutterstock/Rudmer Zwerver Crows can recognise themselves in mirrors, use tools and plan for the future, all cognitive abilities more similar…
[ad_1] The skills astronomers learn in critical thinking, computation, and statistical analysis have many applications outside academia, such as creating articles to submit to the prestigious (and fictitious) journal Acta Prima Aprilia, posted on the arXiv. The arXiv preprint platform is a place to share scholarly studies in all stages of development. Thus, a tradition…
[ad_1] When a child is taught to ride a bike, we often put training wheels on the back; they straddle the rear wheel to ensure the bike cannot tip over while the child learns to keep their balance. Training wheels are great for building confidence and familiarity with the operation of a bicycle. What does…
[ad_1] At precisely 12:44 p.m. EDT (1744 GMT) on Wednesday, March 30, residents in Bloomington, Indiana, and surrounding counties were literally shaken to attention by the sound of a loud explosion. Locals quickly took to social media in search of answers, but found the source of the commotion a little more out of the ordinary…
[ad_1] This story was originally published in our May/June 2022 issue as “Catching Wind.” Click here to subscribe to read more stories like this one. Capturing offshore wind in the U.S. has long been an uphill battle, with various stumbling blocks in the terrain. Objections from fisheries, skepticism from conservationists and tenuous support from tourism have all…