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What’s the sign for ‘centrifuge’? How we added scientific terms to Indian Sign Language
Molecular biologist Alka Rao (left) decodes a laboratory result with the help of sign-language interpreter Sakshi Sharma (centre) and sign-language specialist Digvijay Singh (right).Credit: CSIR IMTECH Sign language in science The lack of scientific terms and vocabulary in many of the world’s sign languages can make science education and research careers inaccessible for deaf people…
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Corvallis Science & Nature: Garden Events, Habitat Restoration, Astronomy Crafts
A little at a time, spring is coming. This past week, the Great Backyard Bird Count added a few early spring migrants to the Benton and Linn County yearly lists of birds, including our first evening grosbeaks, short-eared owls and violet-green swallows of the year. Fittingly, this is a big week for gardeners around Corvallis,…
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Scientists under arrest: the researchers taking action over climate change
Climate scientist Peter Kalmus is freaked out. And he thinks everyone should be just as alarmed as he is over the state of the planet. When he was a graduate student in 2006, Kalmus was studying astrophysics and says he was “blissfully ignorant” about the dangers of climate change. But then he learnt how the…
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Science can drive development and unity in Africa — as it does in the US and Europe
Kwame Nkrumah, pictured with Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister after independence from Britain. Credit: Everett Collection Historical/Alamy It is within the possibility of science and technology to make even the Sahara bloom into a vast field with verdant vegetation.” These words, which still hold true today, were spoken by Kwame Nkrumah, educator, political theorist…
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Why citizen scientists are gathering DNA from hundreds of lakes — on the same day
The LeDNA project will disperse hundreds of volunteers to sample environmental DNA from the world’s lakes.Credit: K. Deiner In a first-of-its-kind project, researchers are tapping into the power of citizen science to collect DNA samples from hundreds of lakes worldwide. Not only will the resulting cache of environmental DNA (eDNA) be the largest ever gathered…
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Gallery of Uniting Science and Nature: Henning Larsen Wins Competition to Design B777 CERN Campus in France – 2
Uniting Science and Nature: Henning Larsen Wins Competition to Design B777 CERN Campus in France Courtesy of Henning Larsen ShareShare Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https://www.archdaily.com/1013512/uniting-science-and-nature-henning-larsen-wins-competition-to-design-b777-cern-campus-in-france Clipboard“COPY”Copy Henning Larsen and Ramboll have won the competition to design the new campus for the prestigious scientific research center, CERN. Designed to integrate science and nature, the…
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Gallery of Uniting Science and Nature: Henning Larsen Wins Competition to Design B777 CERN Campus in France – 1
Uniting Science and Nature: Henning Larsen Wins Competition to Design B777 CERN Campus in France Courtesy of Henning Larsen ShareShare Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https://www.archdaily.com/1013512/uniting-science-and-nature-henning-larsen-wins-competition-to-design-b777-cern-campus-in-france Clipboard“COPY”Copy Henning Larsen and Ramboll have won the competition to design the new campus for the prestigious scientific research center, CERN. Designed to integrate science and nature, the…
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Uniting Science and Nature: Henning Larsen Wins Competition to Design B777 CERN Campus in France
Uniting Science and Nature: Henning Larsen Wins Competition to Design B777 CERN Campus in France Courtesy of Henning Larsen ShareShare Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https://www.archdaily.com/1013512/uniting-science-and-nature-henning-larsen-wins-competition-to-design-b777-cern-campus-in-france Clipboard“COPY”Copy Henning Larsen and Ramboll have won the competition to design the new campus for the prestigious scientific research center, CERN. Designed to integrate science and nature, the…
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200 years of naming dinosaurs: scientists call for overhaul of antiquated system
An 1862 illustration of Megalosaurus, the first dinosaur to be named.Credit: Paul D. Stewart/SPL It’s been 200 years since scientists named the first dinosaur: Megalosaurus. In the centuries since, hundreds of other dinosaur species have been discovered and catalogued — their names inspired by everything from their physical characteristics to the scientists who first described…
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OPINION EXCHANGE | What ancient wisdom and social science say about friends
Opinion editor’s note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes a mix of national and local commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• Regarding a recent letter to the editor, “Long live new friends” (Feb. 11) and the Star Tribune series “The Loneliness Cure,” to which it was responding: Our family too found…