Nature is committed to making the changes necessary to ensure that it learns from its past and creates a publication that champions science for everyone.1860sThe first issue of Nature was published on 4 November 1869. Many earlier publishing adventures in science had failed dismally, but Nature’...
The meaning of the Anthropocene: why it matters even without a formal geological definition Even though geologists have rejected the designation of an Anthropocene epoch, the idea of a major planetary transition in the mid-twentieth century remains useful across physical and social sciences, the hum...
Here we briefly address the controversy on this issue between cognitive scientists and Western ethnomusicologists. Although the concepts of consonance and dissonance have been forged within the Western civilization, their dichotomy is based on the biologically rooted mechanisms of auditory perception, prese...
I never thought I’d find myself in paradise — but then I never thought I would be displeased by it either.When I got off the bus in a little town in the isolated mountains of southwestern China, I discovered myself in what bills itself as the paradise ofJames Hilton’s ...
Who Stole the Tarts? CHAPTER XII. Alices Evidence;4. Sign Language Sign language is a language which uses manual communication and body language to convey meaning. It develops within communities of deaf people and exhibits the same linguistic properties as spoken language. Modern Chinese Sign ...
The issue in this selection process is that humans do not know which genes and DNA to select for colonizing an alien planet, its environment and climate, and its resources which need to be used and consumed. Human specimens seen as “the best” here on Earth may not be suitable for a ...
aThis paper considers the nature of the public sphere in which museums operate, and investigates museum authority as a contested issue inherent in its simultaneous roles as voice of the state articulating identity and nationalism, and as a public space for opinion and meaning-making. 正在翻译,请...
A new paper in Nature though may clear up this issue, as it has identified a likely culprit of the reionisation. ReporterLizzie Gibneycaught up with one of the paper’s authors,Hakim Atekto chat about the discovery....
In particular, we focus on the question of how we extract scientific meaning from data that often were not created for such purposes. These data present conceptual, computational and ethical challenges that require a rejuvenation of our scientific theories to keep up with the rapidly changing ...
of global change), including sometimes affirmative action such as species translocations, or ecosystem engineering : such ecosystem would be more “natural” in this meaning as it can shelter and produce more “nature”. Last but not least, if the aim is to conserve the fundamental character of...