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- How Scientists Use and Abuse Portraiture (11 December 2020):
Many scientific studies assume that painted faces are factual representations of the flesh-and-blood countenances to which they refer. This assumption is not only false; it is preposterous.
- Thirty years of ‘against measurement’ (2 December 2020):
Despite its many successes, physicists are still struggling to nail down a coherent interpretation of quantum mechanics, as it best represents “reality”. Jim Baggott explores the arguments first put forth by John Bell three decades ago, and looks at theoretical and experimental evidence accumulated since
- Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe:
A team in Paris has made the most precise measurement yet of the fine-structure constant, killing hopes for a new force of nature.
(2 December 2020)
- Newly discovered Amazon rock art show the rainforest's earliest inhabitants living with giant Ice Age animals (1 December 2020)
- Huge Puerto Rico radio telescope collapses; many mourning (1 December 2020)
- The Moon Is Rusting, and Researchers Want to Know Why (2 September 2020); can't help but notice that the data was collected by Indian and Japanese space probes, then analyzed by NASA. Missing from the picture: the European Space Agency. When was the last time we did anything except launch commercial satellites?
- Leaf-cutter ants have rocky crystal armor, never before seen in insects (25 November 2020)
- NSF begins planning for decommissioning of Arecibo Observatory’s 305-meter telescope due to safety concerns (19 November 2020)
- What SOFIA’s discovery of water on the Moon is, and isn’t (27 October 2020)
- Brainiacs, not birdbrains: Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primarily human attribute (24 September 2020)
- Florida mosquitoes: 750 million genetically modified insects to be released (20 August 2020)
- Highland polar bear Hamish to leave Scotland (18 August 2020)
- How Many Planets Are There In The Solar System? (14 August 2020)
- Global Wave Discovery Ends 220-Year Search (13 August 2020): An 18th-century physicist first predicted the existence of a chorus of atmospheric waves that swoop around Earth. Scientists have finally found them.
- Mysterious Bright Spots on Dwarf Planet Ceres Point to Secret Underground Ocean (10 August 2020)
- Wireless Charging Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen (6 August 2020)
- The UX of LEGO Interface Panels (August 2020)
- These ancient seafloor microbes woke up after over 100 million years (28 July 2020): Scientists revived long-dormant organisms with carbon and nitrogen in the lab
- Scientists achieve first complete assembly of human X chromosome (14 July 2020)
- There Was a Chimpanzee War in the 1970s (8 July 2020)
- Urban foxes 'more like domesticated dogs' (3 June 2020)
- Scientists Discover 33 Creatures Trapped In A Poisonous Cave That's Been Sealed Off For Million Of Years (2 June 2020)
- Global soil library will help us better know the living skin of planet Earth (29 April 2020)
- World's oldest yarn fragment shows Neanderthals were smarter than we thought (9 April 2020)
- A history of FLICC: the 5 techniques of science denial (24 March 2020)
- Ideal Glass Would Explain Why Glass Exists at All (11 March 2020)
- Loggerhead turtle's journey tracked 37,000km from Cape Town in South Africa to Australia (6 March 2020)
- What Is A Wankel Engine And How Does It Work? (20 February 2020)
- New Horizons spacecraft 'alters theory of planet formation' (13 February 2020)
- NASA brings Voyager 2 fully back online, 11.5 billion miles from Earth (7 February 2020)
- Biologist Explains Biological Sex (29 January 2020)
- World First: Genetically Engineered Moth Is Released Into an Open Field (29 January 2020)
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