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By fluttering its wings, this bird uses body language to message its mate
Be it an arched eyebrow, a shaken head or a raised finger, humans wordlessly communicate complex ideas through gestures every day. This ability is rare in the animal kingdom, having…
GTC 2024 Highlights and the Brilliant Insanity of Nvidia’s CEO
Last week was Nvidia’s GTC, which I think should be renamed since we connect the “G” in GTC to GPU, and this event was mainly about AI. If you are…
Exploring the relationship between different measures of functional redundancy – Functional Ecologists
In this blog post, Daniel G. Dick, a public education and geoscience communication postdoctoral fellow at McMaster University, Canada, discusses his study “Measuring functional redundancy using generalized Hill numbers”, which…
Factors that contribute to differences in cervical cancer screening in rural and urban community health centers
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the United States, community health centers (CHCs) mainly serve historically marginalized populations. New research reveals that both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, females receiving…
iPhone or iMonopoly? The feds take on Apple for smartphone antitrust violations
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The same day in 2007 that founder of Apple Computer Steve Jobs presented the company’s fancy new mobile telephone, the iPhone, he dropped the word “computer”…
Signs of life detectable in single ice grain emitted from extraterrestrial moons
The ice-encrusted oceans of some of the moons orbiting Saturn and Jupiter are leading candidates in the search for extraterrestrial life. A new lab-based study led by the University of…
Traces of Roman fort found in Aachen
Archaeologists from ArcheoConsult have found traces of a Roman fort during excavations in Aachen, Germany. Aachen, known as Aquae Granni during the Roman period, was first settled by the Romans…
A primer on recent measles outbreaks, transmission, symptoms and complications, including ‘immune amnesia’
Microscopic view of a measles virus particle (red). Credit: CDC and NIAID, CC BY Canada is seeing a resurgence of measles, with cases in the first quarter of 2024 already…
Lab tests show THC potency inflated on retail marijuana in Colorado
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Cannabis flower sold in Colorado claims to contain much more tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, than it actually does, according to my findings published in the peer-reviewed journal…
