Click Here to Read: ‘Mindblowing’: how James Webb telescope’s snapshots of infant universe transformed astronomy. Light from ancient galaxies took more than 13bn years to reach Nasa’s £6.8bn James Webb probe and have provided scientists with stunning images by Robin McKie on the Guardian website on July 15, 2023.
Antares and Rho Ophiuchi Image: Adam Block/Steward Observatory/University of Arizona Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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Can A.I. Treat Mental Illness?
Click Here to Read: Can A.I. Treat Mental Illness? New computer systems aim to peer inside our heads—and to help us fix what they find there.
By Dhruv Khullar in the New Yorker magazine on February 27, 2023.
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How the Great Depression shaped people’s DNA
Click Here to Read: How the Great Depression shaped people’s DNA: Epigenetics study finds that children born during the historic recession have markers of accelerated ageing later in life by Freda Kreier on the Nature website on November 21, 2022.
Unemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone, 1931 Image: National Archives at College Park Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
An Existential Threat to Doing Good Science
Click Here to Read: An Existential Threat to Doing Good Science: What scientists are able to teach and what research we can pursue are under attack. I know because I’m living it, writes biologist Luana Maroja by Luana Maroja on the Common Sense website on November 7, 2022.
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Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism
Click Here to Read: Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism For most of human evolution, multiple species with different ways of walking upright coexisted By Jeremy DeSilva in the Scientific American issue of November 1, 2022.
Cast of the “Laetoli footprints” — the earliest known human footprints in the world, on display in the Hall of Human Origins in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. These footprints are those of Australopithecus afarensis. Image: Tim Evanson. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Drought reveals 113 million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Texas:
Click Here to Read: Drought reveals 113 million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Texas: Prints mostly left by a creature that stood 15 feet tall, weighed 7 tons and roamed the area 113 million years ago have emerged as the Paluxy River has disappeared By Tim Stelloh on the NBC News website on Aug. 23, 2022.
Acrocanthosaurus atokensis, Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) of North America. Image: DiBgd Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.