Photographer Chris Perani is fascinated by the microstructures of insect wings, which he captures in “extreme macro” through focus stacking–letting us see wings in glorious micron-scale detail. In addition to giving insects their brilliant colors and irridescence, these structures serve …
Drop a gram of fructose into a human liver cell and something strange happens in the first few seconds. An enzyme called ketohexokinase grabs it, slaps a phosphate onto the first carbon, and sets off a small metabolic fire. ATP, …
The Pint of Science Festival will be held 16-20 May at 43 locations around the UK (link here). One of the Guildford events will be held on Tuesday evening 19 May (7:00-9:30) at the Boileroom Pub (13 Stoke Fields, Guildford …
Build A MarTech Stack: Digital Arsenal For Future Growth It is a fact that MarTech stacks have evolved rapidly over the past decade. What was once a manageable set of tools has turned into a complex ecosystem spanning CRM systems, …
In this post I’ll discuss Weyl spinor fields and explain why Wick-rotating a single Weyl spinor field appears to be impossible. This motivates a proposal for a different way of thinking about the relation between spinors and vectors, described by …
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. What’s big, rare, and smells like literal death? If you guessed a corpse, you’re not wrong. The pungent flower in question is a tropical …
Subscribe to our ▶️ YouTube channel 🔴 for the latest videos, updates, and tips. We can make numbers from the given digits. Let us see the rules. Rule I. To get the smallest number, arrange the digits in ascending order from left …
We’ve lived but a few years so far into the age when artificial intelligence can produce convincing stories, songs, essays, poems, novels, and even films. For many of us, these recently implemented functions have already come to feel necessary in …
Book cover for Archives of Science In the new open-access volume Archives of Science: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century, editors Polina Ilieva and Venkat Srinivasan bring together archivists and scholars from around the world to confront a central …
Anthropic is moving into a new London office as it seeks to expand its research and commercial footprint in Europe, setting up a scrap between the leading AI labs for talent emerging from British universities. The company, which opened its …
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