Thursday, November 21, 2019

science news 21.11.2019

Today's selection of science news. Links are normally to press releases on EurekAlert (at the bottom end I may also add a couple of newspaper stories). I include quotes from the summary in italics in cases where the title alone doesn't reveal what the story is about. My own thoughts appear without italics if I have any.


astro

Outback telescope captures Milky Way center, discovers remnants of dead stars


evolution

New fossils shed light on how snakes got their bite and lost their legs

How plants handle stress


climate change

Vanishing ice puts reindeer herders at risk



A domesticated reindeer from northern Mongolia.
Credit: O. Batchuluun



sustainability

New hybrid device can both capture and store solar energy


sound

How the brain detects the rhythms of speech

Musicians at serious risk of tinnitus, researchers show


vision

Walking changes vision

Beauty in the biased eye of the beholder
When looking at paintings, we don't assess each one on its own merits. Instead, we carry a bias, according to a new study in Psychology at University of Sydney.


dystopian futures

Are hiring algorithms fair? They're too opaque to tell, study finds




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