Europe
2025-02-27 @ 17.28.43 ∈ Suomeksi
2025-02-04 @ 16.54.19 ∈ In English
Decoding a butterfly’s travel map: Scientists find globetrotting not in genes
[The] different migration strategies are shaped by environmental conditions rather than being encoded in the butterfly's DNA. […] Additionally, migration patterns in painted ladies could not be associated with factors such as sex, wing size, or wing shape.
2025-01-10 @ 11.33.06 ∈ Suomeksi
Revontulet näkyivät toukokuussa 2024 poikkeuksellisen etelässä
Toukokuun 10. päivä 2024 alkoi voimakkain geomagneettinen myrsky yli kahteenkymmeneen vuoteen. Myrskyn aikana revontulia havaittiin poikkeuksellisen etelässä. […] Kansainvälinen [työryhmä] koosti kansalaisten havaintojen avulla dataa myrskystä.
2024-10-10 @ 11.13.23 ∈ In English
2024-09-15 @ 15.54.07 ∈ In English
‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman
In general, the claims about how long people are living mostly don’t stack up. I’ve tracked down 80% of the people aged over 110 in the [world]. Of those, almost none have a birth certificate. […] [A] Japanese government review in [2010 found] that 82% of the people aged over 100 in Japan turned out to be dead.
2024-09-14 @ 13.22.30 ∈ In English
(From 2023; Medium.com, eww)
AI and the American Smile
Why do you smile the way you do? A silly question, of course, since it’s only “natural” to smile the way you do, isn’t it? It’s common sense. How else would someone smile? As a person who was not born in the U.S., who immigrated here from the former Soviet Union, as I did, this question is not so simple.
2024-07-19 @ 8.18.36 ∈ In English
The redpoll finch saga: How two bird species just became one
[The] hoary redpoll finch, a small, plump bird commonly found in the Arctic, will be reclassified as the same species as the common redpoll finch, a smaller bird found in similar habitats. This announcement came as a direct result of a CU Boulder-led study which found that, despite their different looks, very few genetic differences exist between the two types of birds.
2024-06-24 @ 17.09.37 ∈ Suomeksi
2024-06-12 @ 11.52.43 ∈ Suomeksi
Mastercard luopuu maksukorttien numeroiden syöttämisestä verkossa
[Tokeneiden käyttöönotto merkitsee sitä, että] perinteistä maksukortin 16 numeroa pitkää numerosarjaa ei enää naputella mihinkään, vaan sen sijaan Mastercard luo jokaista kauppaa tai digitaalista lompakkoa varten oman, uniikin tunnisteen. […] Yhtiö aikoo ottaa ratkaisun käyttöön Euroopassa vuoteen 2030 mennessä.