Sarah Lewin Frasier

Nov 22, 2024 | pourlascience.fr | Sarah Lewin Frasier

Le météorologue Syukuro Manabe a reçu le prix Nobel de physique en 2021, qu’il partagea avec deux colauréats, pour ses travaux des années 1960 de modélisation du mouvement des gaz dans une colonne d’air atmosphérique. Ses recherches, vieilles de soixante ans, se sont avérées fondamentales pour les modèles informatiques que les scientifiques utilisent aujourd’hui pour interpréter et prévoir l’évolution de notre climat.

Oct 31, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | Sarah Lewin Frasier

Humanity is lucky to reside on a planet circling a star with plentiful radiation, illuminating the world around us in reflected wavelengths of light. These wavelengths—a portion of which we experience as color—have long warned us of danger and enticed us to closely inspect the objects we encounter.

Oct 29, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | Sarah Lewin Frasier

Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Games column in Scientific American fascinated and mystified readers for decades—and his legacy continues to bring mathematicians, artists and puzzlers together. Gardner had no formal mathematical training, and his path to science and math writing was a strange one. “He started out as a child magician, and the last thing he published was also a magic trick, about a month before he died,” says Colm Mulcahy, a professor emeritus of mathematics at Spelman College.

Oct 5, 2024 | spektrum.de | Jen Christiansen |Sarah Lewin Frasier

News Lesedauer ca. 1 Minute DruckenTeilenInfografik: Die verborgenen Muster der NobelpreiseZwischen Entdeckungen und ihrer Würdigung mit einem Nobelpreis vergeht oft viel Zeit. Die Preisvergaben aus mehr als 100 Jahren offenbaren faszinierende Zusammenhänge. Ein detaillierter Blick in drei Grafiken.

Sep 25, 2024 | ragazzo.substack.com | Lauren Leffer |Sarah Lewin Frasier |Aja Romano |Bianca Nogrady

Welcome to LINKS — my attempt to provide Rhapsody readers with five interesting stories that tell us something about what it means to be human . LINKS is published every Wednesday. Have a link you want to share? Drop it in the comments. By Lauren Leffer, Popular Science“These small lumps of fermented dairy, laid around the necks of the deceased, represent the longest-aged cheese ever discovered–at about 3,500 years old.