quote [ From infographics to digital renders, today's scientists have ready access to a wide array of techniques to help visually communicate their research. It wasn't always so. Gregorio Astengo explores the innovations employed in early issues of the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions, the world's first scientific journal ? new forms of image making which pushed the boundaries of 17th-century book printing. ]

quote [ While the left has flowed to Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg has laid out the welcome mat to the Trump legions... the most shared content on Facebook is almost always conservative in nature. ]

quote [ Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in its 175-year history. This year we are compelled to do so. We do not do this lightly. ]

quote [ obviously, we are putting a lot of excess energy into the climate system and a lot of that ends up in the ocean,. There is no doubt.? The total heat taken up by the oceans over the past 150 years was about 1,000 times the annual energy use of the entire global population. ]

quote [ An international team of astronomers, led by Professor Jane Greaves of Cardiff University, today announced the discovery of a rare molecule?phosphine?in the clouds of Venus. On Earth, this gas is only made industrially, or by microbes that thrive in oxygen-free environments. ]

quote [ Reports of orcas striking sailing boats in the Straits of Gibraltar have left sailors and scientists confused. Just what is causing such unusually aggressive behaviour? ]

quote [ They often copy the text of their questions and paste it into the answer field, assuming it?s likely to contain the relevant keywords. One told me they used the trick all throughout last semester and received full credit ?pretty much every time.? ]

quote [ The mysterious dark vacuum of interstellar space is finally being revealed by two intrepid spacecraft that have become the first human-made objects to leave our Solar System. ]

quote [ Astronomers may have detected the most massive collision of two black holes ever discovered, a chaotic merger that occurred some 7 billion years ago, the signs of which have only just reached us. The cataclysmic event offered researchers a front-row seat to the birth of one of the Universe?s most elusive objects.

The distant show included two major players: one black hole roughly 66 times the mass of our Sun, and another black hole roughly 85 times the mass of our Sun. The two came close together, rapidly spinning around one another several times per second before eventually crashing together in a violent burst of energy that sent shockwaves throughout the Universe. ]

quote [ Jimenez told me that, compared with yelling, quiet talking reduces aerosols by a factor of five; being completely silent reduces them by a factor of about 50. That means talking quietly, rather than yelling, reduces the risk of viral transmission by a degree comparable to properly wearing a mask.
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?I can tell you that theaters don?t seem nearly as dangerous as a loud restaurant or bar, where people have to speak loudly to be heard.? ]