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1 week ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Clara Moskowitz |Mark Belan
Some species seem to live fast and die young. Others, though, “appear not to age,” says João Pedro de Magalhães, a molecular biologist at the University of Birmingham in England. He is project leader of the Human Ageing Genomic Resources program, which keeps the AnAge database of maximum animal lifespans. Some species of turtles, fishes and salamanders, for instance, don’t show any signs of degeneration or senescence as they grow older.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
nautil.us | Megan Scudellari |Mark Belan
A surprising discoveryabout human evolution began with a research study about, surprisingly, birds. Five years ago, evolutionary biologist Laura van Holstein at the University of Cambridge read a study on the role of competition in songbird evolution.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
gigazine.net | Mark Belan
Sep 14, 2024 18:00:00Since the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012 and the proof of the existence of the Higgs field, physicists have used a variety of familiar analogies to explain how the Higgs field gives objects mass, such as syrup, soup, and crowds. Matt Strassler, an associate professor of physics at Harvard University, suggests that the 'music' created by the vibration of a musical instrument string is a more accurate analogy than these analogies.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
visualcapitalist.com | Mark Belan
Visualized: What Lives in Your Gut MicrobiomeInside all of us lies a complex ecosystem of microbes. It includes bacteria, fungi, and even viruses that live in virtually every part of our bodies. Researchers are continuing to discover how deeply connected our overall gastrointestinal health—gut health—is to these microbes. Because bacteria outnumber all other microbes, we take a look at which ones live inside of us and what they do.
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Dec 25, 2023 | 
flipboard.com | Mark Belan
Anthropology4 hours agoUnusual boxes and 7,000-year-old trove found locked in icebigthink.com - Meg St-Esprit • 4hNorthern Canada is known for its blustery weather, dramatic landscape, and plentiful ice.
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Dec 25, 2023 | 
visualcapitalist.com | Mark Belan
The Standard Model of Particle PhysicsYou may be familiar with the idea that everything in the universe is made up of matter. If you take any object and zoom in to its molecular structure, you eventually arrive at the atom—the basic unit of matter, consisting of a nucleus composed of protons and neutrons and surrounded by electrons.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
visualcapitalist.com | Mark Belan |Pallavi Rao
AI vs. Humans: Which Performs Certain Skills Better? With ChatGPT’s explosive rise, AI has been making its presence felt for the masses, especially in traditional bastions of human capabilities—reading comprehension, speech recognition and image identification. In fact, in the chart above it’s clear that AI has surpassed human performance in quite a few areas, and looks set to overtake humans elsewhere.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
visualcapitalist.com | Mark Belan |Freny Fernandes
The Anthropocene: A New Epoch in the Earth’s HistoryOver the course of Earth’s history, there have been dramatic shifts in the landscape, climate, and biodiversity of the planet. And it is all archived underground. Layers of the planet’s crust carry evidence of pivotal moments that changed the face of the Earth, such as the ice age and asteroid hits. And scientists have recently defined the next major epoch using this geological time scale—the Anthropocene.
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Aug 11, 2023 | 
visualcapitalist.com | Mark Belan
The Periodic Tables You’ve Never Seen BeforeThe Periodic Table of Elements is an iconic image in classrooms and laboratories all around the world. Yet despite having an almost unanimous agreement amongst scientists on its composition, there are over 1,000 different periodic tables—and that number continues to grow. This is because the standard table does not highlight all of the existing relationships between the elements.
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Jul 28, 2023 | 
globalresearch.ca | Mark Belan
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