Katherine Kornei
Freelance Science Journalist at Freelance
Award-winning science writer; bylines in Science, NYT, others. Astrophysicist in a previous life. katherine [dot] kornei [at] gmail [dot] com
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2 weeks ago |
eos.org | Katherine Kornei
On a summer day not long ago, 10 people gathered to eat cheese in the name of science. They nibbled on small rounds of Cantal, a firm cow’s milk cheese historically produced in south central France, and evaluated more than 25 attributes spanning color, odor, taste, aroma, and texture. The tasting was just one component of a larger study on the effects of shifting cows’ diets from grass to corn because of industrialization and climate change.
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2 weeks ago |
eos.org | Katherine Kornei
Frank Marks remembers the Diet Coke can floating in front of his face as the plane pitched violently. After several attempts to grab it, he gave up and focused on avoiding the other debris ricocheting around the cabin. Then an engine flamed out, and the pilots dumped 15,000 pounds (6,800 kilograms) of fuel in a last-ditch effort to climb to relative safety without overheating the three working engines. The flight miraculously landed safely in Barbados a few hours later.
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2 weeks ago |
snexplores.org | Katherine Kornei
bioarchaeology: The study of human history through research on the remains of ancient people or of animals closely associated with those people. People who work in this field are known as bioarchaeologists. biological anthropology: The study of variations among humans and how our species has evolved. Biological anthropologists investigate how human behaviors and other traits may trace to genetics and changes in human physiology.
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3 weeks ago |
sciencenews.org | Katherine Kornei
Wavelike patterns in 115-million-year-old amber suggest that a long-ago tsunami inundated what is now northern Japan, researchers report May 15 in Scientific Reports. Tsunamis can be destructive and, to anything alive nearby, often terrifying. But the physical damage wrought by these giant waves eventually erodes away, typically leaving behind little evidence of their passage.
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3 weeks ago |
eos.org | Katherine Kornei
Every now and then, some trees apparently just need a jolt. When struck by lightning, the large-crowned Dipteryx oleifera sustains minimal damage, whereas the trees and parasitic vines in its immediate vicinity often wither away or die altogether. That clearing out of competing vegetation results in a nearly fifteenfold boost in lifetime seed production for D. oleifera, researchers estimated.
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Happy 35th birthday, Hubble Space Telescope! You're still churning out hits -- my newest story for Science News: https://t.co/AFoTrBZAiR @ScienceNews
In 2004, the Indianapolis 500 turned into the Indianapolis 450 thanks to a tornado. Researchers have tabulated the riskiest outdoor gatherings in terms of tornado and lightning exposure -- my newest story for Eos: https://t.co/z7xWsqMa0n @AGU_Eos
X (and Y and T) mark the spot -- planetary cracks resembling these letters reveal something about a world's watery past. My newest story for AGU's Eos: https://t.co/lPw6Hn1rTC @AGU_Eos