Susanne Schweizer is a neuroscientist investigating the development of emotional regulatory processes and their role in mental health across the life span — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Before we present this week's Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance. The week at Retraction Watch featured a paper that used a mouse that doesn't exist; the … Continue reading
FUTURE Protesting Climate Change, Young People Take to Streets in a Global Strike Somini Sengupta | The New York Times "Anxious about their future on a hotter planet and angry at world leaders for failing to arrest the crisis, masses of young people poured into the streets on every continent on Friday for a day of global climate protests . " ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Google's Quantum Bet on the Fut
As the interviewer and the author of this post, I'll reveal my bias now: meeting Michelle Neil, the secretary and social media moderator of the Australian Citizen Science Association, was a highlight of the Citizen Science Association's conference for me. I'm an unabashed Michelle fan. She sat down with me this past March in Raleigh for a wide-ranging discussion of how she got into citizen science
Dr. Ellen Hendriksen dives into the history of the epidemic and asks behavior coach Eric Zimmer for his most vital advice on addiction recovery — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Susanne Schweizer is a neuroscientist investigating the development of emotional regulatory processes and their role in mental health across the life span — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Richard Rawlings and the Gas Monkeys conjure the ghosts of NASCAR past as they show off their '52 Chevy stock car tribute build. Stream Full Episodes of Fast N' Loud: https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/fast-n-loud/ Subscribe to Discovery: http://bit.ly/SubscribeDiscovery Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FastNLoudTV https://twitter.com/Discovery Join Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.c
Encouraging activity and improving diet in children is crucial to cut deaths from cardiovascular disease — and is the focus of an innovative school project in São Paulo, Brazil. The first results are presented today at the Brazilian Congress of Cardiology (SBC 2019).
Moira Rose, the grandiloquent matriarch of Schitt's Creek , has suffered plenty of indignities since her formerly wealthy family was forced to relocate to the rural town they'd once purchased as a joke. Over the show's first four seasons, the onetime patrician, played by Catherine O'Hara, lost her friends, her acting prestige, and a handful of her beloved wigs. Still, it was a misunderstanding in
PM says five-year commitment designed to make Australia 'partner of choice' to support expeditions to moon and Mars Scott Morrison has used a visit to Nasa on Saturday local time to unveil a $150m investment in Australian businesses and new technology to support the American space agency launch expeditions to the moon and to Mars. The Australian prime minister on his second day in the American ca
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An ice company's wastewater can feed a produce garden. Spent grain from a brewery goes to compost. Local, shared, recycled. Welcome to the future of food.
It's currently the world's third largest carbon emitter.
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The Luddite philosophy has been debunked and discredited as or economy has continued to evolve in the wake of automation, and nowadays people are saying that the newest wave of automation will replace more jobs than ever and at an unprecedented rate, and that we need to quickly evolve into an economy to soften the impact of the most recent industrial revolution. Which is true–but we assume that
The president of the United States reportedly sought the help of a foreign government against an American citizen who might challenge him for his office. This is the single most important revelation in a scoop by The Wall Street Journal , and if it is true, then President Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office immediately. Until now, there was room for reasonable disagreement ov
Farhad Yusef-Zadeh was observing the center of the Milky Way galaxy in radio waves, looking for the presence of faint stars, when he saw it: a spindly structure giving off its own radio emissions. The filament-like feature was probably a glitch in the telescope, or something clouding the field of view, he decided. It shouldn't be here , he thought, and stripped it out of his data. But the mystery
Like too many of us, I hated history classes throughout my school career, and only realized as an adult that there are few things more interesting to ponder than the ways people lived and thought in different times and places than my own. After all, we're all stuck in our own time, limited by our culture, consciousness, and whatever knowledge we may possess of what came before. Maybe that explain
The state has positioned itself as a pioneer in the quest for a fossil fuel-free future, but there are plenty of obstacles in the way — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
"I don't think that [Edward] Snowden was a patriot," Barack Obama said in 2013 after the former NSA contractor leaked revelations of mass surveillance to a small group of journalists. Obama's argument then—one that has been made many times since—was that Snowden had legal channels available to him to address his concerns, which would have protected the classified information in his leaks and, by
Dairy farmers cash in on a growing trend to replace both homogenisation and plastic with a revival of the traditional ways "When the milk price crashed five years ago, we were in a bad way," says Bryce Cunningham, a third-generation farmer running Mossgiel farm in Ayrshire. "Fifty, sixty years ago, you could make a living on a dairy farm; now you're expected to just survive. So I thought, 'If we
Whether it's hitting up SoulCycle or taking a run in the park, exercise is key to stress management, good sleep, happiness, productivity — and above all, health. But when should you push yourself the hardest, and when should you take a break? Which excuses to skip a workout are valid, and which aren't? It's important to distinguish between "overreaching" and "overtraining," Jimmy Bagley, Ph.D., a
Each fall semester, America's long-running debate about campus politics begins again. And I'll take part this year as I have in years past, especially when the debate concerns matters of free speech. Critics say my energies are misplaced. There is no free speech-crisis on campus, they insist––and I agree. A crisis is a discrete period of anomalous trouble or danger. As I see it, free speech is pe
The clock is ticking down on one of the world's most unusual immigration proposals—Spain's offer of citizenship to Jews whose families it expelled more than 500 years ago. In 1492, the year Christopher Columbus set sail, Spain's Edict of Expulsion gave Jews a stark choice: Convert, depart, or die. At the time, Spain's Jewish community was one of the largest in the world, though their numbers had
The majority of growth of the human brain happens after birth. While unrelenting stress can damage developing structures of the limbic system, calibrated challenge can positively stimulate brain growth. Teachers have an important role in assuring students of their safety when taking on new challenges. This video is supported by yes. every kid. , an initiative that aims to rethink education from t
Recent research shows that superbolt lightning breaks the patterns associated with conventional lightning Summer is often a time for spectacular lightning, but a new study reveals that the most powerful lightning bolts strike during northern hemisphere winter. Unlike conventional lightning, "superbolts" are most common over water with hotspots over the Mediterranean and north-east Atlantic. The W
Australia's largest city has a rare superpower: It turns urbanites into bird people, and birds into urbanites. Interacting with the huge avian population is a daily adventure and (mostly) a delight.
New York is bracing for the rising sea levels that climate change will bring, and preparations have already begun—but the long-term costs of adapting to a warmer, wetter world are expected to be astronomical.
Masses of children skipped school to join a global strike against climate change that teen activist Greta Thunberg said was "only the beginning," ahead of a UN youth summit she will participate in Saturday.
A month ago I had a nice little convo with u/CharlieAI , and I got to thinking about the ways we humans could sorta evolve beyond our greed, hate, and fear by leaning heavily on AI for our governance, and robotics for our production, etc. What do you guys think? Right now, humanity is pretty big on profit margins, to the extent that the majority suffer to support a wealthy few…. To the extent t
Nature, Published online: 21 September 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02862-4 German funding agency imposes strict sanctions on Niels Birbaumer, whose studies it says contained incomplete data — but Birbaumer stands by his results.
Trippel-Werke har en meget interessant nyhed på Den internationale Automobiludstilling i Berlin 1939, nemlig den svømmende bil, som kører 70-80 km/h på land og svømmer 7-8 knob i vand. Den findes også i en pansret udgave, som ikke eksporteres.
Australia is facing possibly its worst ever shortage of medical isotopes. These are used in diagnostics, meaning 10,000 people or more may miss out on vital diagnostic scans
The threat of a no-deal Brexit is causing staff at several universities in the UK to stockpile scientific equipment, including protective gloves and fly food
De senaste tio åren har grön tillväxt varit en av politikernas önskeåtgärder för att minska världens utsläpp av växthusgaser. FN, Världsbanken och OECD stödjer alla flitigt idén om grön tillväxt. Men ny forskning säger att det inte fungerar.
Scientists should respect the limits of their discipline. Photo illustration by Triff / Shutterstock Have you heard that we may be living in a computer simulation? Or that our universe is only one of infinitely many parallel worlds in which you live every possible variation of your life? Or that the laws of nature derive from a beautiful, higher-dimensional theory that is super-symmetric and expl
Few Democratic leaders have seemed less eager to impeach President Donald Trump than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She's warned that the public doesn't want it and the Senate would never go for it. But a rolling series of disclosures may force her to recalculate the politics. A report in The Wall Street Journal today, quickly confirmed by other major outlets, introduced an explosive new twist to a
Normal geological evidence isn't precise enough to confirm paleontologists' suspicions. The new fossils find is covered by a fine veneer of red sand deposited in a single season. Scientists can infer whose eggs they were. None Paleontologists suspected that some dinosaurs nested in colonies, but it was impossible to know for sure. Yes, they'd often found what appeared to be groups of fossilized e
Students around the world were on the march, calling on global leaders to take meaningful action to curb human activity driving catastrophic climate change.
Once winter nights dip below freezing and the days warm up above freezing sap begins to flow in sugar maples marking the start of the syrup season. With climate change, daily temperatures are on the rise, which affects sap flow and sugar content. By 2100, the maple syrup season in eastern North America may be one month earlier than it was during 1950 and 2017, according to a new study.
Plant kits for small spaces. (Carolyn V via Unsplash/) Making something grow from a tiny seed can feel like having a superpower, especially if you live in an apartment where the only green you see on a daily basis is the color of your bath towels. What's more, with these easy garden kits, you don't have to worry about letting anyone down. Believe that you've got what it takes to come home to spik
The author and pundit claimed he knew the formula for the Microsoft cofounder's genius. Davis Guggenheim's Netflix doc shows a much more logical equation.
Atmospheric scientists reveal details of the connection between a larger atmospheric phenomenon, termed the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), and the daily patterns of rainfall in the Maritime Continent.
Dozens of revelers gathered near the top-secret base, purportedly hoping to glimpse some extraterrestrial life—but all they got were memes and selfies.
We're trying something new with The Atlantic 's signature politics newsletter. Comments or questions? Send us an email anytime. Were you forwarded this email? Sign yourself up here. We appreciate your continued support for our journalism. Today in Politics India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi hugs President Donald Trump after giving a joint statement from the Rose Garden on June 26, 2017. (Kevin
A small segment of the population are born with superhuman sleep needs. They're called natural short sleepers, and they wake up refreshed and wide awake on very little sleep. And these individuals share a few other quirks, too. (Credit: Shutterstock) What do Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Martha Stewart have in common? They're part of the one percent. No, not that one percent. Instead, we're referri
A recently captured view of Saturn's rings shows them glowing brightly on June 20, 2019. Hubble took this stunning shot as part of the Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) project. (Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (GSFC), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL Team) Saturn's rings are one of the most striking celestial features in our solar system. The Pioneer and Voyager probe
A recent study in mice has found a new biological mechanism that regulates the formation and accumulation of white fat tissue, a key factor in obesity.
The CDC's warning to abstain from vaping also serves as a reminder that as innocent as vaping is often marketed, it's not good for your health. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Erica Crossen/) After eight deaths related to a mysterious lung illness linked to vaping that has also sickened more than 500 people across the United States and more in other countries, the CDC is everyone abstai
Pick your first board wisely. (Shawn Henry via Unsplash/) You don't need to be Tony Hawke to enjoy skateboarding, and you don't need to be a tween to have a ton of fun getting started. If you're at all self-conscious, you may feel better knowing you can get some great gear without stepping into a skate shop. In fact, you can find classic boards in just a few clicks, many with sturdy hardware, chi
It's Friday afternoon (or later) and you've been standing in line at the Apple store for hours waiting for your new iPhone. Or has it been days? Weeks, even? Time has lost all meaning and you can't even entertain yourself by playing games on the display iPads because that annoying, sick-looking kid went around touching all of them. Have no fear, however. There was a lot going on in the world of t
You don't need a giant, heavy piece of equipment to enjoy plucking on your guitar in your apartment. (Conor Samuel via Unsplash/) For those who are passionate about music and don't ever keep a guitar further than an arm's length away, half of the fun comes from being able to plug in and play when inspiration strikes. While there's no rule against practicing guitar through a legendary four-speaker
Lorena made landfall Friday as a Category 1 hurricane, lashing the turquoise waters of popular beach destination Los Cabos on Mexico's Baja California peninsula.
Around the globe, communities are concerned with rain and storms. An area known as the "Maritime Continent," which includes major islands such as Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Papua New Guinea, along with a galaxy of smaller islands, experiences significant rainfall including periodic monsoonal rain, and flash flooding.
If you wander outside on these late summer nights, you might hear the din of calling songs from field crickets. Male crickets produce these songs to attract their mates—but they may also draw the attention of acoustically orienting parasitiod flies. The fly Ormia ochracea has evolved directionally sensitive ears to eavesdrop on the communication signals of field crickets. Crickets that are parasit
More people die during tornadoes in the Southeast than anywhere else in the United States. And still, a lot of people have misconceptions about their risk of being impacted by tornadoes, according to a new study published in PLOS One by researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
If you wander outside on these late summer nights, you might hear the din of calling songs from field crickets. Male crickets produce these songs to attract their mates—but they may also draw the attention of acoustically orienting parasitiod flies. The fly Ormia ochracea has evolved directionally sensitive ears to eavesdrop on the communication signals of field crickets. Crickets that are parasit
Once winter nights dip below freezing and the days warm up above freezing sap begins to flow in sugar maples marking the start of the syrup season. U.S. maple syrup production is a global industry, which has been increasing by nearly 10 percent per year over the past decade according to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service 2017. With climate change, daily temperatures are on the ris
ImageNet Roulette, a digital art project and viral selfie app, exposes how biases have crept into the artificial-intelligence technologies changing our lives.
The Dolmen of Guadalperal is considered the 'Spanish Stonehenge,' and usually sits at the bottom of a manmade lake. Now, following devastating droughts, the monument is on view for the first time in 50 years.
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