Pueblos del extremo norte como Narsaq, en Groenlandia, se enfrentan a futuros riesgos asociados al radón a medida que el clima se calienta y la barrera protectora del permafrost se descongela. El periodista Chris Baraniuk lo explica en este artículo.

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How each person sees and describes colors is a personal thing, for scientific reasons that have to do with an individual’s anatomy, native language and cultural experiences. knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2…

You say blue, I say green. Somehow, we’re both right. Visual neuroscientist Jenny Bosten explains just how that is possible. knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2…

Can we agree that the sky is blue? Apparently not. How we perceive colors varies as widely as why this is the case: the structure of our eyes, how the brain processes images, cultural norms and even the language we speak. knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2…

Fossils are providing stunning evidence of cetaceans’ transition from life on land to life in the water, and drawings like these flesh out what these early cetaceans may have looked like. 🐳 Read more: knowmag.org/Whales_TW

Expertos advierten que los volcanes evolucionan con el tiempo, lo que lleva a subestimar el número de ellos que pueden entrar en erupción. El vulcanólogo Luca Caricchi y el geólogo Guido Giordano lo explican en este artículo de opinión.

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There is no one prehistoric meal plan: A modern hunter-gatherer group known as the Hadza has taught researchers surprising things about the highly variable menu consumed by humans past.

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Our recent piece by Federico Kukso is highlighted here, along with some other great reads 👇

ROYGBIV is even more simplistic than you think when it comes to describing the colors of the rainbow 🌈
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“We’re seeing some of the same patterns when we look at cities across the world: People who live in neighborhoods that have less income per person tend to be exposed to higher levels of urban heat than those who are wealthier,” says Angel Hsu in a Q&A
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What color is a tree, or the sky, or a sunset? At first glance, the answers seem obvious. But it turns out there is plenty of variation in how people see the world — both between individuals and between different cultural groups. knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2…

The season of your birth, whether you live near a body of water, the language you speak — these all could affect how you see and describe colors. Annual Review of Vision Science author Jenny Bosten explains, via Knowable Magazine arevie.ws/3zmzCrs

The rhythm of respiration influences a wide range of behaviors, as well as cognition and emotion. Neuroscientists are piecing together how it all works. knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2…

Casi una docena de empresas apuestan por la energía eólica aérea controlada por computadoras para electrificar el futuro. Ojo al Clima republicó nuestro más reciente reportaje sobre el tema, y se puede leer en este enlace:

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En este artículo el periodista Saugat Bo entrevista a la ingeniera ambiental Shelie Miller para hablar sobre el tema.

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Los aires acondicionados y los refrigeradores ayudan a mantener a las personas a salvo —pero también calientan aún más el planeta—. Científicos trabajan en soluciones más ecológicas a medida que crece la demanda mundial de refrigeración.

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When I first saw 'the dress' in 2015, I thought it was silly... followed by absolute *shock* when someone said with complete confidence that this black & blue dress was white & gold.

Anyhoo here's Nicola Jones' Knowable Magazine Q&A about color perception 🌈knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2…

NEW: The way we see & describe hues varies widely for many reasons: from our individual eye structure, to what language we speak or even if we live near a body of water, explains University of Sussex visual neuroscientist Jenny Bosten in a Q&A

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