Heat from the Sun Affects Seismic Activity on Earth
WASHINGTON, March 4, 2025 – Seismology has revealed much of the basics about earthquakes: Tectonic plates move, causing strain energy to build up, and that energy eventually […]
Rapid Environmental Change Can Threaten Even a Peaceful Daisyworld
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, 2025 – Imagine a world filled only with daisies. Light-colored daisies reflect sunlight, cooling down the planet, while darker daisies absorb sunlight, warming it […]
Music Can Touch the Heart, Even Inside the Womb
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2025 – Playing music has long been a way for expectant parents to connect with their children in the womb, but a group of […]
Can We Avert the Looming Food Crisis of Climate Change?
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26, 2024 – Human activities are causing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels to rise, which increases the global average surface temperature—and poses a threat to […]
Defibrillation Devices Can Save Lives Using 1,000 Times Less Electricity
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5, 2024 – In a paper published this week in Chaos, by AIP Publishing, researchers from Sergio Arboleda University in Bogotá, Colombia, and the Georgia […]
Analyzing ‘Finnegans Wake’ for Novel Spacing Between Punctuation Marks
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2024 – Statistical analysis of classic literature has shown that the way punctuation breaks up text obeys certain universal mathematical relationships. James Joyce’s tome […]
What Was Behind the 2021-2022 Energy Crisis Within Europe?
WASHINGTON, July 2, 2024 – An energy crisis hit Europe in 2021-2022, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which sent electricity prices skyrocketing — even within countries that […]
What Do Bird Dreams Sound Like?
WASHINGTON, April 11, 2024 — For more than 20 years, researchers have known that areas of birds’ brains dedicated to singing show neural patterns during sleep akin […]
When languages collide, which survives?
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2023 – Language has the power to shape our perceptions and interactions with the world. Different languages can coexist, but their dynamics are shaped […]