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You can ‘grab’ these virtual displays and manipulate them midair

4 days ago | snexplores.org | Maria Temming

2-D: Short for two-dimensional. This term is an adjective for something in a flat world, meaning it has features that can be described in only two dimensions — width and length. 3-D: Short for three-dimensional. This term is an adjective for something that has features that can be described in three dimensions — height, width and length. engineer: A person who uses science and math to solve problems.
Brain cells that make you feel full also make you crave dessert

1 week ago | snexplores.org | Andrea Tamayo

ancestor: A predecessor. It could be a family forebear, such as a parent, grandparent or great-great-great grandparent. Or it could be a species, genus, family or other order of organisms from which some later one evolved. For instance, ancient dinosaurs are the ancestors of today's birds. (antonym: descendant)behavior: The way something, often a person or other organism, acts towards others, or conducts itself. biology: The study of living things.
Let’s learn about vaccines

1 week ago | snexplores.org | Maria Temming

antibodies: Any of a large number of proteins that the body produces from B cells and releases into the blood supply as part of its immune response. The production of antibodies is triggered when the body encounters an antigen, some foreign material. Antibodies then lock onto antigens as a first step in disabling the germs or other foreign substances that were the source of those antigens. engineer: A person who uses science and math to solve problems.
Optical illusions trick sheep, llamas and goats, too

1 week ago | snexplores.org | Maria Temming |JoAnna Wendel |Joanna Wendel

cognition: The mental processes of thought, remembering, learning information and interpreting those data that the senses send to the brain. cognitive: A term that relates to mental activities, such as thinking, learning, remembering and solving puzzles. colleague: Someone who works with another; a co-worker or team member. dolphins: A highly intelligent group of marine mammals that belong to the toothed-whale family.
Parakeets talk using brain areas similar to ours

1 week ago | snexplores.org | Laura Sanders

anterior: An adjective meaning near the front of some structure, or it can mean earlier tin time. behavior: The way something, often a person or other organism, acts towards others, or conducts itself. birds: Warm-blooded dinosaurs with wings that first showed up at least 150 million years ago. Birds are jacketed in feathers and produce young from the eggs they deposit in some sort of nest. Most birds fly, but throughout history there have been the occasional species that don’t.
This electric 'slime' might help injuries heal faster

2 weeks ago | snexplores.org | Kendra Redmond

amino acids: Simple molecules that occur naturally in plant and animal tissues and that are the basic building blocks of proteins. battery: A device that can convert chemical energy into electrical energy. bioengineer: Someone who applies engineering to solve problems in biology or in systems that will use living organisms. cell: (in biology) The smallest structural and functional unit of an organism.
Freshwater fish are in trouble: Here’s how we can help them

2 weeks ago | snexplores.org | Kathiann M. Kowalski

Fishing is a way of life for people who live on the floating villages of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake. These Southeast Asians depend on fish that migrate in and out of the lake. And how many are there depend on the time of year. The wet season runs from May to October. Rains rush off land in the Mekong River basin to the Tonle Sap River and lake. This raises levels in much of the lake — the largest in Southeast Asia.
A map of Africa's strontium sheds light on the origins of enslaved people

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.
Let’s learn about plant movement

3 weeks ago | snexplores.org | Maria Temming

acceleration: A change in the speed or direction of some object. catapult: A device for throwing or flinging something into the air. fused: An adjective for something that has features that have been joined or merged together into a single thing. gravity: The force that attracts anything with mass, or bulk, toward any other thing with mass. The more mass that something has, the greater its gravity.
Some iguanas may have rafted across the Pacific 30 million years ago

3 weeks ago | snexplores.org | Jake Buehler

ancestor: (adj. ancestral) A predecessor. It could be a family forebear, such as a parent, grandparent or great-great-great grandparent. Or it could be a species, genus, family or other order of organisms from which some later one evolved. For instance, ancient dinosaurs are the ancestors of today's birds. (antonym: descendant)biologist: A scientist involved in the study of living things. evolution: (v.