Vasudevan Pathmanaban

Lifestyle

How Fungi may be crucial to storing carbon in soil as the Earth warms

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In laboratory tests, dirt home to only bacteria released more CO2 when heated than other soils

Health

How tiny living machines called xenobots can create copies of themselves

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Blobs of frog cells exhibit surprising and complex behavior

Health

What we know and don’t know about the omicron coronavirus variant

342 Hits Vasudevan Pathmanaban Dec 2, 2021, 4:22 PM

Guesses about the new variant abound, but only time will tell if it can compete with delta

Science

What the chemistry behind marijuana’s skunky scent

359 Hits Vasudevan Pathmanaban Nov 30, 2021, 4:31 PM

Newly identified sulfur compounds in cannabis flowers give the plant its telltale funky odor

Science

A new book shows how animals are already coping with climate change

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‘Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid’ offers both good news and bad news

Tech

How ‘The Dawn of Everything’ rewrites 40,000 years of human history

410 Hits Vasudevan Pathmanaban Nov 28, 2021, 4:41 AM

A new book recasts social evolution as surprisingly varied

Tech

How Linking sense of touch to facial movement inches robots toward ‘feeling’ pain

356 Hits Vasudevan Pathmanaban Nov 28, 2021, 4:28 AM

If robots can experience pain themselves, they might understand human pain better, too

Tech

An AI that mimics how mammals smell recognizes scents better than other AI

437 Hits Vasudevan Pathmanaban Nov 28, 2021, 4:19 AM

This kind of algorithm could be used in testing air quality or diagnosing medical conditions

Science

How a space rock called Kamoʻoalewa may be a piece of the moon

701 Hits Vasudevan Pathmanaban Nov 25, 2021, 5:02 PM

New observations reveal the quasisatellite of Earth could be wreckage of a lunar impact

Lifestyle

Albatrosses divorce more often when ocean waters warm

380 Hits Vasudevan Pathmanaban Nov 25, 2021, 4:50 PM

The typically monogamous birds seek new partners when conditions are harsher than usual