tag > Science
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Cultivation of edible mushrooms research, incl. list of "Top mushrooms cultivation countries" (2009)
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‘Amazon forests of the underground’: Why scientists want to map the world's fungi
“These fungal networks have been a global blind spot in conservation and climate agendas," said Toby Kiers, an evolutionary biologist and professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
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Panini was a Sanskrit philologist, grammarian, and revered scholar in ancient India (4th century BCE)
Read more: Pāṇini and Bharata on Grammar and Art - Pāṇini, Xuanzang, and Tolkāppiyaṉ: Some legends and history - A 21 year old’s appreciation post on Panini’s Astadhyayi
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"Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them." - Abraham Flexner
Art from the paper "Surfing the Möbius Band: An Example of the Union of Art and Mathematics"
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Climate Scientists Encounter Limits of Computer Models, Bedeviling Policy (WSJ)
"Supercomputer simulations are running up against the complex physics of programming thousands of weather variables such as the extensive impact of clouds."
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How Bell’s Theorem Proved ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’ Is Real
The root of today’s quantum revolution was John Stewart Bell’s 1964 theorem showing that quantum mechanics really permits instantaneous connections between far-apart locations.
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How James Webb will reveal what Hubble missed - Hubble's deepest views of space revealed fewer than 10% of the Universe's galaxies. James Webb will change that forever.
The James Webb Space Telescope has been designed to answer many of the core questions that have animated astronomers over the past half-century. With a $10 billion price tag, it is one of the most ambitious engineering initiatives ever attempted. But for it to achieve its potential — nothing less than to rewrite the history of the cosmos and reshape humanity’s position within it — a lot of things have to work just right.
