Category: Eternity
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Give care. Give love. For ever…
Robbie Pinter’s 21-year-old son, Nicholas, is upset again. He yells. He obsesses about something that can’t be changed. Even good news may throw him off. So Dr. Pinter breathes deeply, as she was taught, focusing on each intake and release. She talks herself through the crisis, reminding herself that this is how Nicholas copes with […]
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Telling time…
In music, sports and other activities, we calculate movement in two different parts of the brain: One type of anticipatory timing relies on memories from past experiences. The other on rhythm. Both are critical to our ability to navigate and enjoy the world, and scientists have found they are handled in two different parts of […]
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Predict what is not…
Artificial neural networks – algorithms inspired by connections in the brain – have ‘learned’ to perform a variety of tasks, from pedestrian detection in self-driving cars, to analyzing medical images, to translating languages. Now, researchers are training artificial neural networks to predict new stable materials. (1) Using an unstable network. To predict the existence of […]
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Active mountains… Small flowers…
New research helps explain why the structure of some mountains continues to evolve long after the tectonic forces that formed them cease. (1) Mountains remaining active for millions of years. Seemingly eternal. But in fact, as fragile as the smallest flower. Look at it. It is more important. It is stronger. Because, unlike the mountain, […]
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Roses. Genetics. Wild flowers.
Modern roses have had a crazy history of blending genes from eight to 20 species, so decoding the DNA hodgepodge has been difficult. Rose breeders have opted for “showy plants,” says molecular geneticist Mohammed Bendahmane of École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, France. In the process, fragrances dwindled, and efforts to build them back in have […]
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