Math learning through videos
Stanislas Dehaene and Marie Amalric investigate whether short online videos are sufficient to teach mathematics concepts.
20 Mars 202310min
Impressionism and air pollution
Anna Lea Albright and Peter Huybers describe how optical effects consistent with air pollution appear in the paintings of Claude Monet and J.M.W. Turner.
6 Mars 20239min
How lizards adapt to urban living
Kristin Winchell explains the genetic basis of anole adaptation to urban environments.
14 Feb 20239min
Revisiting the history of animal extinctions
Researchers document animal extinctions in the Ediacaran Period that may have preceded the earliest known mass extinction.
30 Jan 20237min
The music of Mesozoic bush crickets
Bo Wang and Chunpeng Xu describe how fossilized katydids provide insight into the role of insect sounds in the Mesozoic.
16 Jan 202310min
How a neural network taught itself chess
Tom McGrath describes how the neural network AlphaZero taught itself how to play chess without observing a human game.
3 Jan 20237min
Honeybees: Nature's puzzle solvers
Orit Peleg, Golnar Fard and Francisco López Jiménez explain how honeybees overcome geometric constraints to construct honeycombs.
19 Dec 20227min
Cultural identity in sperm whales
Taylor Hersh explores how patterns of clicks produced by sperm whales suggest the exchange of cultural information between the whales.
5 Dec 202210min
