This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Chicken blushing — People — humans — blush. Chickens aren’t entirely inhuman in that they, too, show emotions on their facial skin. Delphine Soulet at the University of Tours, France, and colleagues have explored how skin redness […]
Mathematically speaking, distance and travel time now — in this technological age — have a relatavistical relationship, even at speed far, far lower than the speed of light. This new study explains: “Further We Travel the Faster We Go,” Levente Varga, András Kovács, Géza Tóth, István Papp, Zoltán Néda, PLoS ONE, 11(2): 2016, e0148913. The […]
Make your travel plans now for the next International Workshop on Packing. This year’s, held in Dublin in a “packed house”, has just concluded, the participants (all of whom have intriguingly packed schedules) efficiently stuffing their travel accoutrements and dirty clothes into backpacks and suitcases, and hastening back to their labs and homes. The conference’s promoters […]
