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John Muir Laws on How to Nature Journal
A journal about journaling? In this issue, John Muir Laws gets meta.
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Untangling the science of hair: why we lose it, why it goes grey and why we have hair on our heads at all
Anthony Morgan is having a bad hair day. Sarika Cullis-Suzuki is wondering how to fight the frizz. And many of us can relate. A 2018 survey by InStyle magazine found that 75 per cent of women consider hair important to their well-being. In a 2005 study of European men, over 70 per cent reported hair…
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How to keep your hair healthy, according to science
Canadians spend more than $2 billion a year on hair care products and salons. We are obsessed with our hair. In Hairy Tales, a documentary from The Nature of Things, co-hosts Sarika Cullis-Suzuki and Anthony Morgan meet doctors, geneticists, leading researchers and even a Guinness World Record holder for the heaviest weight lifted with hair…
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Registration now open for Science North summer camps in Orillia
NEWS RELEASESCIENCE NORTH*********************Registration for Science North Summer Science Camps is now open in Barrie and surrounding areas including Orillia and Midland. As well as 30+ additional communities across Northern Ontario. Since 1987, Science North has offered fun, unique, and educational summer science camp experiences to over 30,000 children ages 4–14 across Ontario! This year is no different as…
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The North Museum of Nature and Science unveils new art gallery with debut exhibit
The North Museum of Nature and Science, located at 400 College Ave. in Lancaster, is branching out to include a new art gallery as part of the experience. The museum will debut The Art Gallery with “Emergence: Exploring the Art of Transformation,” an exhibition featuring 55 two-dimensional works from 30 artists based in Pennsylvania as…
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The North Museum of Nature and Science unveils new art gallery with debut exhibit
The North Museum of Nature and Science, located at 400 College Ave. in Lancaster, is branching out to include a new art gallery as part of the experience. The museum will debut The Art Gallery with “Emergence: Exploring the Art of Transformation,” an exhibition featuring 55 two-dimensional works from 30 artists based in Pennsylvania as…
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Comparing the ambition of EU companies with science-based targets to EU regulation-imposed reductions
Abstract Companies can support governments in bridging the emissions gap between current policies and the Paris goals by adhering to voluntary greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets that align with or surpass those implied by domestic policies. To this end, we assessed the potential impact of EU companies that set targets through the Science Based…
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New evidence for prehistoric ploughing in Europe
Abstract For the past four decades, the ‘Secondary Products Revolution’ model, i.e., the exploitation of animal resources that do not involve killing the animal, such as the production of milk and wool and the use of animals for physical labour has been the object of heated discussion between Neolithic scholars. According to this model, the…
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Nature publishes too few papers from women researchers
Women and early-career researchers: Nature wants to publish your research.Credit: Getty Researchers submitting original research to Nature over the past year will have noticed an extra question, asking them to self-report their gender. Today, as part of our commitment to helping to make science more equitable, we are publishing in this editorial a preliminary analysis…
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Trump versus Biden: what the rematch could mean for three key science issues
Former US president Donald Trump and current US President Joe Biden will face off in November to win a second term.Credit: Morry Gash, Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Voters in 15 US states and one territory weighed in at the polls on 5 March, or ‘Super Tuesday’, and the results lock in a rematch between Republican…
