Carolyn Wilke
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Curiosity and wonder journalist 📝 PhD | she/her, Indian American | Freelance - bylines @NYTScience @KnowableMag @sciam @cenmag | 🧵 I sew stuff
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3 weeks ago |
snexplores.org | Nikk Ogasa |Carolyn Wilke
aftershock: One or more smaller earthquakes which often follow a major earthquake. anaerobic: Occurring in the absence of oxygen. Anaerobic reactions take place in oxygen-free locations. bedrock: The thick, solid rock layer that underlies the soil and other broken, rocky materials on Earth’s surface. earthquake: A sudden and sometimes violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within Earth’s crust or of volcanic action.
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3 weeks ago |
snexplores.org | Carolyn Wilke |Stephen Ornes |Lisa Grossman |Sarah Zielinski
Smartphones are helping chart an erratic region of Earth’s atmosphere that can mess with navigation systems and other tech. That region is the ionosphere — a sea of charged particles on the edge of outer space. There, the sun’s radiation cooks gases in the air. This rips electrons off neutral atoms and molecules, creating free-roaming charged particles. Levels of these charged particles shift with changing sunlight and solar activity.
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4 weeks ago |
eos.org | Carolyn Wilke
Beavers dam rivers. Ants make mounds and dig tunnels. Foraging fish shift particles on riverbeds. Domestic cattle compact the soil beneath their hooves. For decades, researchers have chronicled the ways that individual species modify their environments. But it’s not clear what all this earth-moving amounts to.
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4 weeks ago |
snexplores.org | Aaron Tremper |Carolyn Wilke |Freda Kreier
Paleontologists have unearthed many iconic dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, from the western United States. Relatively few species, however, have popped up east of the Great Plains. In 2017, ReBecca Hunt-Foster described one of these rarities from the 113-million-year-old remains of a right foot. Describing a fossil requires making a detailed report on how an extinct animal lived. If it’s the first fossil of that species, this is when it gets its official name.
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1 month ago |
cen.acs.org | Carolyn Wilke
Around 11 million years ago, a cooling climate fragmented warm, humid forests in Africa, Asia, and Europe, giving rise to savannas. Many mammals evolved to take advantage of these wide-open spaces, including species similar to the giraffes, rhinos, buffalos, jackals, and hyenas that roam East African savannas today. New radioisotope dates from fossil sites in Turkey may help researchers untangle the evolutionary history of mammals, including early humans and their relatives ( Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.
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Humans blast the oceans with noise from shipping, oil exploration and military operations. For dolphins living in a world of sound, that might be making it harder to work together. Mine in @NYTScience & thanks @PernilleMS, @sgero for talking with me https://t.co/shQup48UNn
From the top of volcanoes to the bottom of the sea, optical fibers are gathering data where traditional monitoring is too costly or difficult. Mine in @KnowableMag Thanks to @gmarraNPL, Andreas Fichtner, and Nate Lindsey for talking with me https://t.co/zb9NTm8DGS
Two words: vaginal teeth My latest for @NYTScience Thanks to @jn_pelaez, @NKWhiteman, @adgloss, @catherinelinnen and @joelatallah for telling me about egg-layers that scoop and slice https://t.co/JfPhZhI2U7