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Darwin's Encounter with a Chilean Earthquake
Last week, Chile suffered a massive magnitude 8.3 earthquake. You can read the USGS's summary here , and an overview of the science behind it here . Thanks to excellent earthquake preparedness, even a quake that massive followed by a fifteen-foot tsunami, while dealing quite a bit of damage , had a surprisingly low human toll. […]Keep reading »MIND PsySociety
Your Favorite Candidate Speaks Simplistically. That's OK. For Now.
Obama promised no more Guantanamo Bay. George H.W. Bush promised no new taxes. And yet...both of these promises went (or have thus far gone) unfulfilled. So when Donald Trump broadcasts that illegal immigrants are “ criminals and rapists ” and promises to build a giant wall between the United States and Mexico, or Bernie Sanders calls income inequality the “ great moral issue of our time ” and vows to double the federal minimum wage, can we count on these campaign promises suffering a similar failed fate by the wayside of our democracy? […]Keep reading »SA Observations
Can We Commercialize Touch?
Editors note: This essay was produced in cooperation with the World Economic Forum with members of its program on Young Scientists, who appeared at the Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, China from September 9-to-11. Of the five senses, the one that has survived the longest would have to be touch. […]Keep reading »SA Observations
More Fun Please, We're Scientists
Editors note: This is part of a series of interviews produced in cooperation with the World Economic Forum with members of its program on Young Scientists, who appeared at the Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, China from September 9-to-11. The Q&A below features Christoph Stampfer, of RWTH Aachen University. […]Keep reading »- Tetrapod Zoology
On World Rhino Day 2015, Some Things about Rhinos You Might Not Know
Great one-horned rhino Rhinoceros unicornis in enclosure at the brilliant Chester Zoo, UK. Photo by Darren Naish. I’ve just learnt that today is World Rhino Day. This always happens: I learn about these things on the day and am completely unaware of them beforehand. […]Keep reading » Rosetta Stones
Live-Blogging Richard Waitt's In the Path of Destruction III: Eve of Destruction
In our last edition of ITPOD live-blogging , we watched the north flank of Mount St. Helens bulge ominously. In this edition, we'll watch people try very hard to go about their business despite the signs that the volcano isn't going to go quietly back to sleep. […]Keep reading »Budding Scientist
Teens Tackle Alzheimer's Disease, Vaccine Shortages at Google
Creativity, ambition and resilience propelled this year’s batch of Google Science Fair finalists to Mountain View, Calif., where they have been showing off their inventiveness at Google headquarters ahead of tonight’s awards ceremony. The grand prize winner will receive $50,000 in scholarship funding from Google, and a half dozen others will receive awards from fair sponsors Scientific American, Lego, National Geographic and Virgin Galactic. […]Keep reading »SA Expeditions
The "Black Piranha" of Ascension Island
Editor's note: There’s a fascinating natural experiment happening around Ascension Island. While the number of fish here is astounding, surprisingly few species have been hardy enough and lucky enough to make the long journey and settle here successfully. […]Keep reading »SA Guest Blog
Missing the Soil for the Seeds in Cancer Research
While we generally consider soil as the dirt on which we walk and that we use to grow our plants, it also serves as a useful analogy for cancer. One of the most dreaded maladies of our time is like a seed, and it can only take root if we provide the right kind of tissue in which it can nest. […]Keep reading »SA Anecdotes from the Archive
Bigger Guns, 1915
Reported in Scientific American , this Week in World War I: September 18, 1915 The cover of this week’s issue of the magazine shows the interior of one of the forts surrounding the fortified town of Przemyśl, now in Poland, but in 1915 in the Galician province of the Austria-Hungarian empire. […]Keep reading »
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