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BBC Audio | CrowdScience | Do multiple choice questions make us biased?
1+ hour, 4+ min ago (294+ words) CrowdScience listener Griffith in Ghana, isn't JUST a CrowdScience listener. He's also a listener to our sister show on the World Service, Unexpected Elements. But he's noticed something funny. In the weekly Unexpected Elements multiple-choice quiz, the answer is almost…...
Cosmic dust reveals life recovered surprisingly fast after dinosaur extinction
1+ hour, 35+ min ago (361+ words) New species emerged in just 2,000 years, a new study finds A new study has found that new species appeared just 2,000 years after the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. A research team led by Christopher Lowery,…...
Deep in the Heart of Texas: Pittcon is Coming to San Antonio
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (215+ words) Pittcon, one of the foremost laboratory science conferences, makes its Texas debut at San Antonio's Henry B. Gonz'lez Event Center from March 7 to 11. The conference's technical program of over 1100 sessions provides analytical scientists with direct access to the latest research and…...
Major scientific discovery: 207 volcanoes mapped under Antarctic ice sheet
2+ hour, 21+ min ago (163+ words) The research team created the world's first complete digital record of Antarctic subglacial volcanoes, called ANT-SGV-25.This catalogue gives detailed identity information about volcanoes that lie buried beneath miles of ice. Researchers say this discovery is important because heat from…...
How close have human beings come to the sun? The kids’ quiz
2+ hour, 35+ min ago (315+ words) Five multiple-choice questions " set by children " to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes'Submit a questionMolly Oldfield hosts Everything Under the Sun, a podcast answering children's questions. Do check out her books,…...
3 Semiconductor-Enabled Innovations Impacting How We Experience The World
3+ hour, 30+ min ago (583+ words) Strides in safer systems, smaller devices and AI adoption will shape tomorrow's technology The importance of chips " and the electronics they're enabling " have been made possible by years in semiconductor progress. Let's review how semiconductor technologies are enabling three innovations…...
More than 80 flood warnings issued in UK with more downpours forecast
3+ hour, 30+ min ago (224+ words) More than 80 warnings of expected flooding are in place as relentless rain continues to soak the country. The Environment Agency (EA) has issued 91 flood warnings, mostly scattered across the south and south-west England and the East and West Midlands. On…...
Bermuda snail thought to be extinct now thrives after a decade’s effort
3+ hour, 35+ min ago (465+ words) Special pods at Chester zoo helped conservationists breed and release more than 100,000 greater Bermuda snails A button-sized snail once feared extinct in its Bermudian home is thriving again after conservationists bred and released more than 100,000 of the molluscs. The greater…...
Environmental breakdown isn’t a distant possibility – it’s a threat to world stability
3+ hour, 35+ min ago (324+ words) Ireland's protected habitats and species are in free-fall, with about 90 per cent of them now failing, according to a December report. Underlying this collapse is a pattern of treating climate and nature as peripheral, marginal concerns, easily sidelined rather than…...
Weekend set to warm up
3+ hour, 35+ min ago (95+ words) Weekend set to warm up'Duluth News Tribune The weekend looks to be calm and pleasant for much of northern Minnesota. Lows will remain below zero Saturday morning, but winds will remain light and temperatures will make it into the teens…...