How a blue cedar from Morocco won my heart
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Shipwrecked in the Amazon
In Manaus, a sprawling city of more than 2 million, the depth of the Rio Negro, a major branch of the Amazon River, reached ...
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Exploring the Contrast between Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night's Dream” and Asteroid 2024 YR4…
In contrast to Asimov's robots, “AI” is not a robotic uprising but rather an energy revolution—this energy revolution must ...
Art and science illuminate the same subtle proportions in tree branches
The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a tree makes in a few thick branches versus many thin ones. Trees have evolved ...
Could balloon-like water tanks help fight L.A.’s fires? A new concept is touted as a solution
Could balloon-like water tanks help California prepare for fires? Some call an energy company’s “Water Trees” a game-changing ...