Scientists and funders with close links to local communities outline how Western teams can collaborate fairly and effectively with those groups.
Rather than relying on sunlight, some Antarctic bacteria live on inorganic compounds found in air.
Spectacular art on a nano scale (requires access to specialist chemicals, compounds and tools, but hey, why not?).
Do not worry that machines will rise up, take power, and create a completely new world, Broussard argues. Worry that they will silently reproduce and reinforce the world that already exists.
A NASA spacecraft will slam into asteroid in Earth’s first planetary-defence test.
Take the Harvard implicit bias test here. Everyone has implicit biases – thoughts and feelings outside your conscious awareness and control which influence your decisions. Once you’re aware of them, you can start taking steps to address them.
More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments.
To validate science, it usually needs to be independently reproduced, and those replications published. Use these tips to improve the reproducibility of your science.
Wonder got humans to the surface of another planet. Watch the Perseverance Rover land on Mars.
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