“Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like.” -Thomas S. Kuhn
For all of human history, the biggest…
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Ask Ethan: How sure are we that the Universe is 13.8 billion years old?
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Pollution: not “an unavoidable consequence” of development
So Long
Thank you to all the writers and commentators who contributed to this network. Happy trails.
An archive of my work for ScienceBlogs exists here: 314vault.wordpress.com.
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Seeing One Example Of Merging Neutron Stars Raises Five Incredible Questions
“O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium and thorium under neutron bombardment. Thus they demonstrated the production of nuclei of barium, lanthanum,…
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Don’t Teach Your Kids to Attack the Planet
Life has been growing on Earth for about 4 billion years, and during that time there have been a handful of mass extinctions that have wiped out a large percentage of complex lifeforms. Asteroid impact, volcanic eruption, climate change,…
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Isotopic analyses link the lives of Late Neolithic individuals to burial location in Spain
An isotopic analysis of megalithic graves and caves in Spain may suggest the existence of a degree of differentiation in the lifeways of people buried in these different funerary sites, according to a study published September 27, 2017 in the…
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How aerial thermal imagery is revolutionizing archaeology
A Dartmouth-led study has demonstrated how the latest aerial thermal imagery is transforming archaeology due to advancements in technology.
Today’s thermal cameras, commercial drones and photogrammetric software has introduced a new realm of…
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3-D analysis of dog fossils sheds light on domestication debate
In an effort to settle the debate about the origin of dog domestication, a technique that uses 3-D scans of fossils is helping researchers determine the difference between dogs and wolves.
In the ongoing debate, one camp believes dogs were…
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Virtual reality breathes new life into African fossils, art and artefacts
Digital technology has become an integral part of our everyday lives. So it was only a matter of time before the ways people interact with the past and ancient artefacts in museum settings became digital, too.
The problem is that technology can be…
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The data gap problem
Cowbird Mafioso
Brown-headed cowbirds cannot incubate their own eggs. Instead, they lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, who incubate them and raise the cowbird chicks as their own. According to a new study by Jeff Hoover of…
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The Trump War on Science: Daring blindness, Denying climate change, Destroying the EPA and other daily disasters
Celebrating African American History Month with Role Models in Science & Engineering Achievement: Barrington Irving
USA Science & Engineering Festival X-STEM Speaker renowned aviator Barrington Irving sums up his current mission as…
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