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
Thursday, November 21, 2019
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