The cave-dwelling mysid shrimp Hemimysis margalefi. Credit: Marie Derrien Homing is an animal’s ability to navigate towards an original location, such as a breeding spot or foraging territory. Salmon and racing pigeons are famous for homing, but similar behaviors occur in groups as diverse as bees, frogs, rats, and sea turtles. There, homing individuals are … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain People’s deep connection with the ocean—their “marine identity”—can help us reset society’s relationship with the seas, new research led by Dr. Pamela Buchan, from the University of Exeter, suggests. A diverse, international group of marine researchers and practitioners met to discuss marine identity—based on testimony and photos from multiple countries. The … Read more
The insights gained from this study show that stochastic volatility has significant influence on the pricing of perpetual American strangle options and their boundary conditions, offering crucial insights for minimizing risk in volatile markets. Credit: Dr. Ji-Hun Yoon from Pusan National University, Korea Perpetual American strangle options (PASOs) offer investors a method for minimizing risk … Read more
In this photo provided by Liz Chrastil, a neuroscientist with the University of California, Irvine, she her holds her newborn son in May 2020. Credit: Courtesy Liz Chrastil via AP Neuroscientist Liz Chrastil got the unique chance to see how her brain changed while she was pregnant and share what she learned in a new … Read more
This image, captured by the VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) on NOAA-21, shows Hurricane Beryl at 12:50 p.m. Atlantic Standard Time on June 30, 2024, during its rapid intensification. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Michala Garrison, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Accurately predicting … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Many histories of Nazi Germany are accompanied by a photograph of two scientists measuring a man’s facial features with a caliper. The picture is often contextualized, in these books, museums, and image archives as an illustration of the National Socialist obsession with quantifiable racial purity, particularly as it was applied to … Read more
Pictured on the left, human vision of the pulsed laser deposition plasma plumes. On the right, images from movies of the interpretation of the plasma plumes by AI, which can predict film growth characteristics Credit: Sumner Harris/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy In a published in the journal npj Computational Materials, Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The San Diego County Air Pollution Control District will be expanding its role in addressing the foul odors affecting communities near where sewage spills over the U.S.-Mexico border, following conflicting reports earlier this week about whether the stinky air people breathe is dangerous. On Thursday, the district’s governing board unanimously agreed … Read more
Monument 19 from La Venta (National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City). Credit: Marco M. Vigato in Uncharted Ruins In an article recently published in Latin American Antiquity, Dr. Jill Mollenhauer argues that the Gulf Lowland Olmec, one of Mesoamerica’s earliest major civilizations, sometimes incorporated aesthetic and ritual practices associated with their rock art into their … Read more
The world’s most important conference on climate change is this year being hosted by Azerbaijan from November 11 to 22. Global warming. Disappearing plant and animal species. Fertile land turning to desert. Plastic in the oceans, on land, and the air we breathe. These urgent environmental challenges will be in the spotlight over the next … Read more
