In March last year, members of the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP2) experiment, based in Antarctica, announced results that appeared to contain measurements of an elusive physical phenomenon named primordial gravitational waves....
BICEP2’s claim of a detection of primordial gravitational waves amounts to a dust bowl On Friday 14th March 2014, a rumour started to spread among scientists that the BICEP2 collaboration were due to announce...
Magpies like to steal shiny, metallic objects to make their nests, right? That’s how the age-old story goes. Rossini even penned an opera on the subject. The birds, part of the crow family, are...
A bug present for two years in a significant fraction of the web’s servers has potentially exposed sensitive information to everyone and anyone. On April 8th 2014, news started to spread that a critical...
Towards the end of the last decade, recycling of electronic waste in the United States of America stood at a pitiful 13.6% . Out of 2.8 million tonnes of waste, that accounted for just...
This article is part of a GIST series on Bitcoin. In part 1, we described the mathematics that underpins digital currencies like Bitcoin as well as the security of the web itself. In part...
This article is part of a GIST series on Bitcoin. In part 1, we described the mathematics that underpins digital currencies like Bitcoin, as well as the security of the web itself. In part...
This article is part of a GIST series on Bitcoin. In part 1, we described the mathematics that underpins digital currencies like Bitcoin, as well as the security of the web itself. In this...
Pint of Science 2019: The Art of Science
21 Jun, 2019
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A cross between 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation' and 'Life on Earth', wildlife forensics is the emerging force that is driving the investigation of wildlife crime.
Author: Claire Whitehead
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Link: https://the-gist.org/2023/03/what-happens-when-wildlife-crime-meets-the-forensic-zoologist/
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Being able to see what our brain does when we don’t feel so well shows promising results in treating depression and anxiety. How does this treatment tool called ‘neurofeedback' work and why is it even more useful in the post-COVID-19 era?
By Lucie Tvrdá
https://the-gist.org/2023/02/neurofeedback-when-the-brain-gives-us-feedback-on-how-we-feel
