Science Cabaret

To get this image, Cornell physicist David Muller, whose team conducted the recent study, likens the technique to playing dodgeball against opponents who are standing in the dark. The dodgeballs are electrons, and the targets are individual atoms. Though Muller cannot see the targets, he can see where the dodgeballs end up, thanks to advanced detectors. Based on the speckle pattern generated by billions of electrons, machine-learning algorithms can calculate where the atoms were in the sample and what their shapes might be.

A Drone Crash Caused Thousands of Elegant Terns to Abandon Their Nests "On the morning of May 13, Peter Knapp stepped onto an ominously quiet California beach. The night before, he’d noted a horde of boisterous Elegant Terns just starting to incubate their eggs in the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, 30 miles south of Los Angeles. But the roughly 3,000 birds were missing. I didn’t see the terns anywhere on the reserve, says Knapp, a seasoned wildlife monitor with the Cali...fornia Department of Fish and Wildlife. So I started looking around. By the time he reached North Tern Island, the birds' nesting site, he’d found an answer. On the ground was an illegal drone, which had obviously crashed. The birds did not return, abandoning some 1,500 sand nests, each holding one or two eggs."

A fine poem about our immortal waste problem. By Lisa Watkins, a PhD student at Cornell studying plastic pollution.

Turning off your outdoor lights at night will help ensure that fireflies can communicate with each other in the dark. https://xerces.org//supporting-firefly-conservation-from-c (Photo: ZoranCto [CC BY-SA 2.0].)

New research at Georgia Institute of Technology suggests that baseline pupil size is closely related to individual differences in intelligence. The larger the pupils, the higher the intelligence, as measured by tests of reasoning, attention and memory. In fact, across three studies, they found that the difference in baseline pupil size between people who scored the highest on the cognitive tests and those who scored the lowest was large enough to be detected by the unaided eye.

Mayim Bialik brings a love of science to her guest hosting of Jeopardy!. What do you think, should she be the new permanent host???

During the pandemic, frequency of drinking rose, as did sales of hard liquor. By this February, nearly a quarter of Americans said they’d drunk more over the past year as a means of coping with stress.

Join for a livestream event with renowned artist and designer Maya Lin. An environmental activist who creates science-based artwork, Lin will present new works, followed by a conversation with Andrew Revkin of Columbia's Earth Institute. June 10 at 12 pm EDT.

Stop. whatever. you are doing. . . . .... . Thank you Melissa Groo. See more

Today, 5/18, st noon: Learn more about the growing Bitcoin industry in the region. Speakers: Yvonne Taylor and Joseph Campbell, Seneca Lake Guardian Robert Howarth... Michael Warren Thomas Vinny Aliperti See more

The Cayuga Lake Watershed Network has a couple of community sessions coming up. Learn more about your lake and some of challenges being faced. May 19, 2021 7:00pm Dr. Michael Brown Post-Doctoral Research Scientist, Finger Lakes Institute, Hobart and William Smith Colleges... "Historical and Contemporary Variability in Finger Lakes Harmful Algal Blooms" May 27, 2021 7:00pm Dr. David Wolfe Professor of Plant and Soil Ecology in the School of Integrative Plant Science (Horticulture Section) at Cornell University "Climate Change in the Cayuga Lake Watershed" Email [email protected] to register. Photo: By Shelby L. Bell Taughannock State Park - Cayuga Lake

The United States Mint last month announced that poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou and NASA astronaut Sally Ride will be the first two women featured on the quarter as part of the American Women Quarters program.

So many lessons. Trees Talk To Each Other. 'Mother Tree' Ecologist Hears Lessons For People, Too