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Apple Vision Pro: what does it mean for scientists?
The Apple Vision Pro headset, released in the United States on 2 February, offers wearers virtual and augmented reality displays.Credit: David Swanson/AFP/Getty Apple’s virtual-reality (VR) headset, the Vision Pro, was released only two weeks ago — but scientists are already grappling with some of the research implications. Researchers say the headset could be a watershed…
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“AI Meets Citizen Science to Unlock the Nature of Storytelling”
From McGill University: A new project led by McGill University researchers seeks to understand one of humanity’s oldest practices and most powerful tools—storytelling. From ancient oral traditions to modern-day literature and digital narratives, storytelling is an essential part of the lived experience that is not yet fully understood. ‘The Lives of Literary Characters’ is a…
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Breaking Through: My Life in Science by Katalin Karikó review – real-life lessons in chemistry
In May 2013, Katalin Karikó turned up for work at her laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania and found her belongings piled in the hallway. “There were my binders, my posters, my boxes of test tubes,” she recalls. Nearby a lab technician was shoving things into a trash bin. “My things!” Karikó realised. Despite having…
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Natural History Museum of Utah hosted inaugural Women in Nature and Science event
Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia’s prison agency said. He was 47.
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Author & Illustrator Jason Chin brings science education to Abilene youth at NCCIL
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How a trial about the rights of nature led to the discovery of a hallucinogenic mushroom in Ecuador
It was September 2022. In an event room at the Rockefeller Foundation headquarters in New York City, a group of extraordinary people gathered, including philosophers, lawyers, scientists, writers, artists. They were brought together by the More Than Human Rights (MOTH) Project, an interdisciplinary initiative linked to NYU that promotes reflection on why the conception of…
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Climatologist Michael Mann wins defamation case: what it means for scientists
Michael Mann was responsible for the famous ‘hockey-stick graph’ depicting climate warming.Credit: James Ross/Australian Associated Press/Alamy US climate scientist Michael Mann has prevailed in a lawsuit that accused two conservative commentators of defamation for challenging his research and comparing him to a convicted child molester. A jury awarded Mann, who is based at the University…
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Religion 9 Most Sacred Sites From Around The Globe Grab your map, hat, and whip (we’re doing this Indiana Jones style). In today’s article, we’re searching for the 9 Most Sacred Sites from Around the Globe!
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Mirror-image molecules separated using workhorse of chemistry
The two enantiomers of thalidomide have different effects inside the body.Credit: Alfred Pasieka/SPL Chemists have shown it is possible to use mass spectrometry — a technique commonly used to identify molecules by mass — to separate chiral molecules, those that exist as different forms with identical atoms but mirror-image structures that can’t be superimposed on…
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US and China likely to delay renewal of key science pact again
US President Joe Biden (left) and China’s President Xi Jinping at an economic cooperation summit in California last year.Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty China and the United States will once again probably delay the renewal of a decades-old pact to cooperate on science and technology. The two nations have been negotiating for the past six months, but…