Curious Kids[1] is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [2]. How is snow made? – Tenley, age 7, Rockford, Michigan The thought of snow can conjure up
‘Swarm of one’ robot is a single machine made up of independent modules
My colleagues and I have built a robot composed of many building blocks like the cells of a multicellular organism. Without a “brain” or a central controller in the system, our robot, dubbed Loopy, relies on the collective behavior of all of its cells
Early COVID-19 research is riddled with poor methods and low-quality results − a problem for science the pandemic worsened but didn’t create
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers flooded journals[1] with studies about the then-novel coronavirus. Many publications streamlined the peer-review process for COVID-19 papers while keeping acceptance rates relatively high. The assumption was that
Making the moral of the story stick − a media psychologist explains the research behind ‘Sesame Street,’ ‘Arthur’ and other children’s TV
To adult viewers, educational media content for children, such as “Sesame Street[1]” or “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood[2],” may seem rather simplistic. The pacing is slow, key themes are often repeated and the visual aspects tend to be plain.
However,
Destruction seen from space – via radar
As soldiers and citizens provide information from the front lines and affected areas of the war in Ukraine – two years old as of Feb. 24, 2024 – in quasi-real time, an active open-source intelligence community[1] has formed to keep track of troop
Read more https://theconversation.com/war-in-ukraine-at-2-years-destruction-seen-from-space-via-radar-223275
How governments handle data matters for inclusion
Governments increasingly rely on large amounts of data to provide services ranging from mobility[1] and air quality[2] to child welfare[3] and policing programs[4]. While governments have always relied on data, their increasing use of algorithms and artificial
Read more https://theconversation.com/how-governments-handle-data-matters-for-inclusion-219557
Bacteria can develop resistance to drugs they haven’t encountered before − scientists figured this out decades ago in a classic experiment
Do bacteria mutate randomly, or do they mutate for a purpose? Researchers have been puzzling over this conundrum for over a century[1].
In 1943, microbiologist Salvador Luria and physicist turned biologist Max Delbrück invented an experiment[2] to argue that