Every rock you pick up at Mount Stephen Trilobite Beds has a trilobite on it. Science vacations are the best vacations. I’ve been very lucky to visit some fantastic science-related destinations and I’m trying to decide which ones to visit next. I’ll share some of my recommendations here, in no particular order. I hope you’ll…
Begonia chunxiuensis WGWang, DKTian, RKLi and HCXi, in Xi, Li, Z.-X. Wang, Lang, W.-G. Wang and Tian, 2025. Abstract Begonia chunxiuensisa new species from Guangxi of China, is described and illustrated. It is morphologically similar to B. Sino-Vietnamese and Aurorabut is distinguished from them by its narrowly triangular stipules, the leaf blade which is adaxially…
On-Demand Webinar: The Future of Research Visibility: Beyond Traditional Metrics Introduction Success in scientific publishing has long been measured by citations and impact factors. However, in today’s Medical Affairs landscape, the definition of value is rapidly changing. This article summarizes the ideas from the recent roundtable. “The future of research visibility: beyond traditional metrics,“ where…
The researchers wanted to explore how your way of thinking about time could explain the link between feeling like you belong in a group and your mental health. Introduction Have you ever felt worried about an upcoming exam? Or sad because you didn’t do so well on that exam? It is normal to have these…
In early 2018, my colleagues and I published The next plague and how science will stop it and the coronavirus was there, because there had already been two coronavirus pandemics, SARS and MERS, in this century. No one anticipated that SARS-CoV-2 would break out in Wuhan, China, and be the worst pandemic since the 1950s,…
Shackleford Banks is an 8-mile-long barrier island off the coast of North Carolina made up of sandy beaches, salt marshes, and maritime forests. There are no vacation rentals, boardwalks, or seafood restaurants serving the residents of Shackleford Banks. That’s because the residents are more than 100 wild horses who call the sand dunes of this…
Front (left) and side (right) snapshots of a galactic disk of gas. These snapshots of the gas distribution after a supernova explosion were generated by the deep learning surrogate model. Credit: RIKEN Astrophysicists have always dreamed of making a simulation of the Milky Way that could track every star—every orbit, flare, and explosion—without taking shortcuts….
By Vijay Jayaraj What if we celebrated Thanksgiving with a tribute to global warming and the relative abundance of carbon dioxide (CO?2) in our atmosphere? An outrageously outrageous thought, right? Propose that we respect what global elites and their complacent media insist will bring certain doom. Yet this is precisely what sound thinking requires. Just…
By the end of this week, federal agencies will have submitted their plans to the White House outlining the implementation of the Administration’s executive order on “Gold standard science.” The order and accompaniment. guide memorandum have been met with legitimate outrage and grave concern throughout our Earth and space sciences community. I am encouraged to…
A study with IPHES CERCA redefines the role of scavenging in human evolution and demonstrates that it was an efficient strategy that complemented hunting and gathering. A research group from IPHES-CERCA participated in a project led by the National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH) that revisits how the consumption of carrion marked the…