A handful of girls seem to defy one of the biggest certainties in life: ageing. Virginia Hughes reports. Richard Walker has been trying to conquer ageing since he was a 26-year-old free-loving hippie.
Jim Papadopoulos has spent a lifetime pondering the maths of bikes in motion. Now his work has found fresh momentum. Jim Papadopoulos sees a future with radically new bicycle designs. Credit: Adam Glanzman for Nature Seven bikes lean against the wall of Jim Papadopoulos's basement in Boston,…
The Dutch publisher Elsevier publishes many of the world’s best known mathematics journals, including Advances in Mathematics, Comptes Rendus, Discrete Mathematics, The European Journal of Combinatorics, Historia Mathematica, Journal of Algebra, Journal of Approximation Theory, Journal of…
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Die schlechteste Idee, die Ben jemals hatte, ist zwölf Meter lang und macht bei gutem Wind acht Knoten. Eigentlich würde Ben niemals sagen, dass es eine schlechte Idee war, so reden nur die Bedenkenträger. Aber im Moment versucht er, allein mit dieser Idee für den Unterhalt seiner Familie zu sorgen,…
2,072,193 Views 9,708 Questions Answered TEDEd Animation Let’s Begin… How is it that Beethoven, who is celebrated as one of the most significant composers of all time, wrote many of his most beloved songs while going deaf? The answer lies in the math behind his music. Natalya St. Clair employs the…
English version here Liebe Leserinnen, liebe Leser des SZ-Magazins, die folgende, aufwändig recherchierte Geschichte des SZ-Redakteurs Johannes Boie über eine wissenschaftliche Studie des Münchner Arztes Dr. Christoph Klein erschien am 22. April 2016 im SZ-Magazin. Dr. Klein wurde für diese…
If you were wondering what a mottled sculpin looks like, there are plenty of pictures available online. But while they may satisfy a curious tidepooler, the discerning ichthyologist demands more. That
4,372,624 Views 2,469 Questions Answered TEDEd Animation Let’s Begin… Traveling is extremely arduous for microscopic sperm -- think of a human trying to swim in a pool made of...other humans. We can compare the journey of a sperm to that of a sperm whale by calculating the Reynolds number, a…
Best viewed in Cardboard – First round of experiments using the DeepDream algorithm to reimagine footage captured with Jump (g.co/jump). Made in collaboration with Doug Fritz of Google's Artists and Machine Intelligence program. For more info visit g.co/AMI. Note: If you have any issues with…
Image courtesy of Mathieu Tremblin Mathieu Tremblin lives and works in Rennes and Arles, France. After graduation from a university of fine arts he began working with site specific urban interventions, graffiti culture, branding and the détournement of objects used in publications, installations,…
Who will say ‘corpse’ to his vivid cast? Who will say ‘body’ to his opaque repose? —Seamus Heaney, “Grauballe Man” (1975) Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . One Saturday in the spring of 1950, brothers Viggo and Emil Højgaard from the small village of Tollund, in…
Stell dir vor, du stündest auf einem grossen Platz, und um dich herum hätten sich nur deinetwegen Zehntausende Menschen versammelt. Sie könnten es kaum erwarten, dir bei der Arbeit zuzusehen, und wären derart still, dass du jedes Geräusch hören würdest, ein Nuscheln in der vordersten oder ein…
The first master plan that I wrote 10 years ago is now in the final stages of completion. It wasn't all that complicated and basically consisted of: Create a low volume car, which would necessarily be
Daniel Fiß legt Wert auf Stil. Unter dem grau-schwarzen Kapuzenpulli trägt er ein kariertes Hemd der kalifornischen In-Marke Hollister. Vor ihm steht ein heißes Glas Tee mit frisch gezupften Pfeffermi
Three research groups taking very different approaches to building an artificial kidney all have the same goal: giving people with kidney failure an escape from today’s dialysis routine. Because dialy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Chapter 1: “Inmates Run This Bitch” Have you ever had a riot?” I ask a recruiter from a prison run by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). “The last riot we had was two years ago,” he…
Astronomers have been scanning the cosmos for signs of intelligent life for more than half a century, and not only have they found jack shit, but they've hardly investigated the places where aliens mi
Der Hass im Netz: «Wenn ein Schiff mit Migranten im Mittelmeer versinkt, dann finde ich das eine gute Nachricht.» Nr. 27 – 7. Juli 2016 Onlinepostings von SVP-Politiker Andreas Glarner haben eine Debatte über frauenfeindliche Kommentare und fremdenfeindliche Botschaften ausgelöst, die die Grenzen…
Der Hochschuldozent Charles-Edouard Vincent hat ein Geschäftsmodell entwickelt, um das nachbarschaftliche Miteinander in Paris wiederzubeleben. Jetzt muss er aufpassen, dass seine Idee nicht zu erfolgreich wird.
I’m 29 years old, and I’ve been on Snapchat for about a year now. I post fairly often (usually on my Story), and I get a decent amount of engagement from my friends. Quite honestly, up until Thanksgiving, I thought I was pretty good at Snapchat. Then I watched my little sister on Snapchat. This is…
On Technology A few years ago, the Brooklyn Museum put on a Keith Haring exhibition, with a focus on his early career. There were videos of Haring at work, feverishly painting his way across an enormous scroll, and a room filled with drawings he illegally chalked in subway stations. But most…
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. New York Times CEO Mark Thompson caused a minor stir a couple weeks ago when he gave a speech at an advertising conference declaring that “No one who refuses to contribute to the creation of high quality journalism has the right to consume it.” He…
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On the Wildness of Children “The revolution will not take place in a classroom.” by Carol Black “In Wildness is the preservation of the World.” Thoreau says it in “Walking,” and Jack Turner, in his exquisite collection of essays, The Abstract Wild, questions how many of us have any idea what it…
Lorry drivers passing through Calais, northern France, say they are now taking on the role of amateur immigration officer, as they struggle to keep would-be asylum seekers from gaining entry to the UK in their vehicles. Some drivers are sympathetic to the migrants' plight but for others, their…
Schon immer war der Vater unseres Autors konservativ, aber nie extrem in seinen Positionen. Dann klingelt das Telefon. Er wolle zu einer Kundgebung, auf der Frauke Petry spricht. Unser Autor macht sich Sorgen – und begleitet ihn. Eine Begegnung mit einem politisch irritierten Mann, der für ein…
Back in the day when the British had a penchant for conquering the world, they ran into a little problem on the subcontinent; cobras. Turns out there were a hell of a lot of the buggers wandering around India and it also turned out that they were rather venomous which didn’t sit well with the…
The Thing poster art by Christopher Shy By Sven Mikulec I mean, the whole point of the monster is to be monstrous, to be repellent. That’s what makes you sidewith the human beings. I didn’t have a pro
Technologies far more advanced than our own could potentially produce even more dramatic evidence of their presence. Large stellar-scale structures could cause apparent modulation in starlight as they orbited their host, and massive energy usage by a super advanced civilization might be revealed by…
Gray shows us how to sort out a pigs tail whilst at Vale Head farm... We visited Vale Head therapuetic farm for young people, Stourbridge, as part of a field trip for a university project, we were taught this harmless trick by our friend who was working on the farm and thought it would be a humorous…
One night in January 2015, two Stanford University graduate students biking across campus spotted a freshman thrusting his body on top of an unconscious, half-naked woman behind a dumpster. This March, a California jury found the former student, 20-year-old Brock Allen Turner, guilty of three counts…
Yesterday at the WWDC keynote, Apple announced a series of new security and privacy features, including one feature that’s drawn a bit of attention — and confusion. Specifically, Apple announced that they will be using a technique called “Differential Privacy” (henceforth: DP) to improve the privacy…
Ein Editorial der taz zu dieser Recherche findet sich hier. Es ist wohl reiner Zufall, dass der Keylogger am Ende entdeckt wird. Mindestens ein Jahr lang ist er zuvor im Einsatz. Er wandert von Computer zu Computer, im ersten, dritten und vierten Stock der Rudi-Dutschke-Str. 23 und schneidet dort…
New York 1983, Madison Square Garden: Zwei junge Männer stehen sich im Ring gegenüber, es ist der Boxkampf ihres Lebens. Doch einer wird im Gefängnis landen, der andere sterben. Diese Reportage erschien zuerst unter dem Titel "Zerschlagen" in stern Crime, Nr. 6 Wer Luis Resto treffen will, muss nach…
In der linken Hand habe ich ein süßes Getränk aus Kokosmilch und Maiskörnern, mit der rechten lenke ich meinen Motorroller. Es ist Nacht, der Wind wärmt mein Gesicht, als hielte ich es vor eine Rotlichtlampe. Ich fahre im Kreis, auf einer kleinen Insel im Südwesten von Thailand. Nicht um irgendwo…
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