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Social Sciences May 15, 2024

From Barbie to Thomas the Tank Engine: How entertainment brands are adapting to Generation Alpha

Growing up, did you play with hyper-sexualized Barbie dolls, boys-only Thomas the Tank Engine trains, or slim, white Disney princesses? If so, you're not alone, but this is no longer the case for Generation Alpha.

Plants & Animals May 10, 2024

Bilbies could hop back into mild climate zones, study finds

Bilbies bred in a sanctuary in Dubbo have provided researchers with vital clues about how they would fare in temperate Australia where they once thrived.

Nanophysics May 7, 2024

Researchers 'unzip' 2D materials with lasers

In a new paper published on May 1 in the journal Science Advances, researchers at Columbia Engineering used commercially available tabletop lasers to create tiny, atomically sharp nanostructures, or nanopatterns, in samples ...

Other Apr 20, 2024

Saturday Citations: Irrationality modeled; genetic basis for PTSD; Tasmanian devils still endangered

Hello, stakeholders. (This is the nongendered term of address I've been workshopping because I see "folks" in too many social media posts.) Researchers this week reported on an AI model that attempts to emulate human irrationality ...

Plants & Animals Mar 20, 2024

Decoding the Easter Bunny: Eastern Finnish brown hare represents standard for species' genome

The Hare Research Group at the Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, has published a chromosomally assembled reference genome for the European brown hare. Reference genomes represent ...

Space Exploration Feb 26, 2024

The countdown to NASA's Jupiter mission is on. This JPL engineer is helping it happen

Think of meticulously handcrafted objects and certain things come immediately to mind: fine art, exotic cars, luxury timepieces.

Ecology Feb 14, 2024

Fluffy nuisance: Paris sends Invalides rabbits into exile

Tourists and Parisians have long been accustomed to the sight of wild rabbits frolicking around the lawns of the historic Invalides memorial complex, one of the French capital's great landmarks.

Plants & Animals Dec 5, 2023

Mice pass the mirror test, a classic indicator of self-recognition

Researchers report December 5 in the journal Neuron that mice display behavior that resembles self-recognition when they see themselves in the mirror. When the researchers marked the foreheads of black-furred mice with a ...

Social Sciences Aug 14, 2023

Body images: How tech can co-opt our physical selves, and how art can save us

Shane Denson is an associate professor of film and media studies at the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. He's also a deep thinker about our data-rich world and the technologies driving it. Biosensing technologies, ...

Plants & Animals May 15, 2023

A rabbit rescue operation is launched to save bunnies from rising floodwaters

With record-breaking storms wreaking havoc throughout California, even rabbits need rescuing.

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