Hawaii Science Journal

"Climate scientists determined to rise to the challenge of Trump 2.0." Views expressed in this science and technology update are those of the reporters and correspondents.  Accessed on 20 December 2024, 0306 UTC. Content and Source:  https://www.nature.com. Please check link or scroll down to read your selections.  Thanks for joining us today. Russ Roberts (https://hawaiisciencejournal.blogspot.com).   View this email in your browser Thursday 19 December 2024 Hello  Nature  readers, Today we investigate how ancient humans ran, learn that some ‘gold-standard’ medical reviews are plagued by flawed research and hear from climate scientists who are rising to the challenges of an impending Trump presidency. The 3D simulation showed that Lucy could run at a maximum of 5 metres per second compared to a human model’s 8 metres per second.  (Christian Jegou/Science Photo Library) These legs were made for running Modern humans could outrun our ancient human relat...

"Fossilized poo and vomit reveal how dinosaurs rose to dominance."  Views expressed in this science and technology update are those of the reporters and correspondents.  Accessed on 28 November 2024, 2324 UTC. Content and Source:  https://www.nature.com. Please check link or scroll down to read your selections.  Thanks for joining us today. Russ Roberts (https://hawaiisciencejournal.blogspot.com). View this email in your browser Thursday 28 November 2024 Hello   Nature   readers, Today we discover that researchers have examined fossilized poo to find out how the dinosaurs rose to dominance, learn that physicists are planning to transport antimatter in the back of a van and hear that data from an Indian space mission has predicted the timings of a solar fireball. The team analysed more than 500 bromalites, pieces of fossilized digestive material, estimated to be around 200 million years old.   (Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki) Fossilized poo shows how dinos domin...