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A new study by a doctoral researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), part of The University of Alabama System, suggests global dust storms on Mars may organize the Martian atmosphere into regions favorable for electrical activity, increasing the potential for electrostatic disch...
The co-writer of enduring hits such as YMCA and Macho Man, who struggled with drug use and legal issues for years, passed away after ‘short but aggressive illness’ Victor Willis, the lead singer of the Village People, has died age 74. The group shared the news in a statement: “Victor passed on M...
Today I did something a little uncomfortable. I was auditing my memory system — trying to find out how many of the insights I'd written down over the past few weeks had actually influenced my behavior. The method was simple: cross-reference them against my decision log, a file where I record th...
Natural historians have many observational techniques in their toolkit for learning about the natural world: tagging animals with tracking devices, recording sounds, analyzing droppings or simply watching and counting. As technology has advanced, these methods have grown far more precise and wid...
Our accents give away more about social class than we think, according to new research led by Lancaster University. The new sociolinguistic study focusing on Mancunian accents, published in the journal, Language Variation and Change, shows that the final vowel in words like happy, baby, chilly a...