Landmark studies track source of Indo-European languages spoken by 40% of world
A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...
Scientists analyze branch patterns in trees and art, from da Vinci to Mondrian
The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie ...
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How Nature Journaling Helps My Students Feel at Home
A place-based educator in California invites his students to spend time in, observe, and document the wild nature around them ...
NASA’s Asteroid Sample Reveals a Shocking Link Between Space and Earth’s Salt Lakes
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...
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The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA
By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...