Published on December 10, 2022 in Planet Earth, Science This weekend’s stories include What the World’s Largest Liquid Mirror Telescope Means for Astronomy to How Mass Extinction and Evolution Are Intertwined, and much more. Consciousness may not require a brain–Are plants conscious? asks Annaka Harris, New York Times bestselling author of CONSCIOUS: A Brief Guide …
By Shankar Das Sarma The laws of physics may not be what they seem Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images I was recently reading an old article by string theorist Robbert Dijkgraaf in Quanta Magazine titled “There are no laws of physics”. You might find it a little strange for a physicist to claim that there are no …
In my community in southern Costa Rica, the Ceiba tree is sacred. It towers over all other trees in our forests, with a canopy of up to 230 feet. My people, the Bribri, have always looked upon our Ceibas with admiration and respect. Rich nations are looking at them now and seeing them as an …
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A flash of light emitted by the collision of neutron stars has once again upended our understanding of how the Universe works. Analysis of the short burst of gamma rays emitted when the two stars merged revealed that, rather than forming a black hole, as expected, the immediate product of the merger was a highly …
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As people woke up in the middle of the week, you’d think they had a lot on their plate – with growing concerns over whether the wallet and purse can drag Christmas 2022 into New Year’s 2023 and beyond. beyond, at the top of most people’s agenda in Donegal and beyond. We all went to …
“I can’t tell you how special it is to hold something we never thought we’d see again,” Kyle Jaynes, a PhD student at Michigan State University, said after a trip to South America in search of… harlequin frogs. Jaynes, a member of MSU’s Department of Integrative Biology and Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior program, was part …
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