What does it mean to alter nature’s evolution? Take a look at six artists that use bioengineering and organic materials to explore the theme of chimeras.
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may2023 Q2 Chimeras, bioart & : how art's capacity to imagine what can't be explained helps us face ethical issues surrounding the science of genetic engineering...
The Standard Model of particle physics is the most successful scientific theory of all time.
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may2023 Q2 The Standard Model, Gravity & Quantum Field Theory: building from scratch an explanation of the building blocks of the Universe but with some caveats about what we don't quite know...
“The more we understand ourselves and the universe, the more magnificent it is.”
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may2023 Q2 Voyager, scientific wonder & prediction: It's as important for N Scientists to be open to 'the discomfort of not knowing. Tolerating ambiguity, waiting until you have evidence, knowing that sometimes the evidence will change'...
Twenty years ago, physicists set out to investigate a mysterious asymmetry in the proton’s interior. Their results, published today, show how antimatter helps stabilize every atom’s core.
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may2023 Q2 Proton seas, pion clods & SpinQuest: evolving models of the atom get closer to explaining an 'unresolved story'...
"Orel State University रूस में सबसे लोकप्रिय और अग्रणी चिकित्सा संस्थानों में से एक है। इसकी स्थापना 1931 में औद्योगिक-शैक्षणिक संस्थान के रूप में हुई थी, लेकिन 1996 में इसका नाम बदलकर Orel State University कर दिया गया। विश्वविद्यालय के पास सबसे बड़े बुनियादी ढांचे और परिसरों में से एक है।"<a href="https://dreammedicine.in/orel-state-medical-institute">Orel State Medical University</a>
Archaeologists believe wave of discoveries set to tumble forth as code cracked by work of pioneering amateur
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may2023 Q2 Paleolithic art, proto-writing & a conceptualisation of time: collaboration between amateur & experts leads to new explanation of formerly inexplicable cave painting symbols...
Could primordial black holes from the beginning of time explain ‘dark matter’, the mysterious missing mass in the Universe?
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may2023 Q2 Primordial black holes, dark matter & 'dark sectors': some N Scientific knowledge gravitates towards what can't - yet - be explained as a way of solving long standing problems...
Scientists have never been able to adequately explain where lightning comes from. Now the first detailed observations of its emergence inside a cloud have exposed how electric fields grow strong…
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may2023 Q2 Lightning research, radio telescopes & LOFAR: Towards an explanation to solve the longstanding mystery of the origins of lightning flashes...
Cosmic impacts can make planets and moons more porous than previously thought, potentially boosting their ability to host life, a new study finds.
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may2023 Q2 GRAIL, cosmic impacts & deep porosity: how digital simulations allow experts to explain the origins of life on planets. Implications? Indicate where 'best look for life on distant worlds'...
The conditions for dry lightning, responsible for devastating California wildfires, have been identified.
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may2023 Q2 Dry-lightning, wildfires & climate change effects: the life-saving applications of NS knowledge make it more important to focus on what can be explained.
The torrent of accelerated time without narrative is disorienting our society and fragmenting community, says philosopher Byung-Chul Han. Art can help put the pieces back together.
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may2023 Q2 Truth, infocracy & narrative vacuums: how the Arts are our main hope to make sense of an increasingly fragmented world through a revitalisation of ritual, culture & community...
The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed. We’ve attempted to connect the proton’s many faces to form the most complete picture yet.
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may2023 Qs2/5 Proton-splitting, quark models & gluon dandelions: How N Scientists confront phenomena whose complexity 'you can’t even imagine'.
Are you a person in a universe or brain in a void? How logicians, cosmologists and philosophers tackle Boltzmann’s paradox
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may2023 Q2 The Boltzmann Paradox, Big Bang & cosmology: N Scientific experts continue to be engaged by what can't be explained about what preceded and caused the Universe...
GettyIn 2003, Hollywood released a disaster movie dubbed The Core in which the Earth’s core inexplicably stops rotating—threatening to destroy all life as we know it due to the collapsing magnetic field. To fix it, a group of scientists are tasked with burrowing under the crust and nuking the core in order to get it to start spinning again.It was a truly ridiculous and convoluted story even by Hollywood standards. But it turns out, there might be some truth to the idea that the Earth’s core can
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may2023 Q2 Earth's rotation, seismic waves & magnetic field fluctuations: explaining the the workings of the Earth's inner core is important so as to trace its effects on the surface...
The loudest sound in the universe, an epic "space roar", was detected in 2006 and scientists still don't know what's causing it.
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may2023 Q2 Space roars, ARCADE & extragalactic signals: How Astrophysicists find importance in natural phenomena that can't be explained immediately...
New work shows that neurons and other brain cells use DNA double-strand breaks, often associated with cancer, neurodegeneration and aging, to quickly express genes related to learning and memory.
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may2023 Q2 DNA breakage, gene transcription & epigenetic markers: how neuroscientific experts hypothesise to reach explanations of surprising brain functions...
"Our Hitler: A Film from Germany" is a vast meditation on storytelling and war.
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may2023 Qs 2 & 6 'Our Hitler', representing the unrepresentable & the power of 'emplotment': how artistic & historical methods of storytelling determine the production of meaningful knowledge, making '[t]he inexplicable...explicable'...
While the messages at Glastonbury Abbey almost certainly did not come from spirits, a number of studies have shown that they may not have been created by deliberate fraud
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may2023 Q2 Automatic writing, ideomotor effects & implicit memory: how skeptical scientific enquiry goes about its business of providing plausible explanations for controversial spiritualist knowledge claims...
UPDATE: In a comment below, Randolph Nesse, one of the founders of "Darwinian medicine," cites a book I'd forgotten: If only everyone interested in this topic could read “Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species”, Sarah Hrdy’s 2020 book on the topic. And if only the NY Times would review such…
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may2023 Q2 Maternal instincts, misogynistic myths & biological facts: discussing how scientific explanations are open to distortion when ideologies play a part in formulating them...
A 500 million-year-old microscopic, spiny creature...
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may2023 Q2 Palaeontology, the Cambrian tree of life & evolutionary mysteries: Even when scientists think they've explained something about fossil origins, there always seems to be something missing...
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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may2023 Q2 Mental fatigue, the 'N-Back task' & glutamate diffusion: how scientific explanations of mental exhaustion have therapeutic implications for the workplace...
There’s mounting evidence that brain damage has the power to unlock extraordinary creative talents. What can this teach us about how geniuses are made?
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may2023 Q2 Brain injuries, sudden savant syndrome & synaesthesia: Trying to give a scientific explanation of inexplicable feats of creative artistic genius...
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