With terrifyingly sharp teeth arranged around a circular mouth, lampreys look about as primitive a vertebrate as you could imagine. But a new study finds that the animals have a surprising similarity to people: Lampreys have the nerve cells responsible for the “fight or flight” response. The finding challenges the idea that this part of the nervous system emerged later in evolutionary history, and it puts lampreys closer to complex vertebrates — like humans.
“The conclusions are textbook-changing level,” says
Another NBA All-Star Game has come and gone, and it was once again an uninspiring Sunday night. The game, once the crown jewel of All-Star Weekend, was a dud despite expectations that the league was going to fix it.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver said as much on the eve of the game itself. He discussed the changes the league made to make the game more competitive — welcome back, East vs. West! – the efforts it took to figure it
PROF BRIAN COX: Schneeflocken sind kompliziert, schön, geheimnisvoll und absolut faszinierend. Doch trotz aller Komplexität – und endlosen Vielfalt – lässt sich die Struktur einer Schneeflocke durch ein paar universelle Naturgesetze erklären. Gesetze, die alles erklären, von Schneeflocken bis hin zu Galaxien. Fangen wir am Anfang an. Was ist eine Schneeflocke? Oder, um den technischeren Namen zu verwenden, ein Schneekristall? Ein Schneekristall entsteht in den Wolken, wenn Wasserdampf auf kleine Staub- oder Pollenkörnchen
Fondsmanager Gerrit Smit ist ein Schüler des Investment-Gurus Charlie Munger – Warren Buffetts frühere Nummer zwei – der letzten Monat im stolzen Alter von 99 Jahren verstarb.
Munger kaufte gerne Geschäfte für Buffetts Firma Berkshire Hathaway, die er verstand und für die er nicht zu viel bezahlte. Sein Mantra lautete: „Menschen kalkulieren zu viel und denken zu wenig.“
Es ist ein Ansatz, von dem Smit sagt, dass er
A survey of small, cool stars is helping to narrow in on the conditions that might set the stage for life beyond our solar system.
A look at about 200 ultracool dwarf stars shows that they lack sufficient ultraviolet light intensity to have the potential to jump-start life, researchers report December 1 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. That may initially seem to be bad news for finding signs of alien life on distant planets. But
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Some businesses can be summed up in a word or two.
As a geospatial network-management software provider, IQGeo requires a few more, but the value proposition of the rapidly growing AIM constituent makes it worth understanding.
At its core, IQGeo’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology stack makes it easier, cheaper and more efficient to roll out fibre broadband networks.
It does this through a concept very much at the cutting edge of the software industry: digital twins.
IQGeo’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology stack
Christopher F. Rufo is what is sometimes known as a shit-stirrer—a particular type of troublemaker whose game is to find something stinky, then waft its fumes toward the noses of those mostly likely to be outraged by it. In the past several years, controversies over race, gender, and campus leftism have ripened in part due to his publicity. Often the so-called antiracists, trans activists, and tenured radicals at the center of the controversies are self-discrediting. All Rufo has to do
