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Geometrical Thinking Offers a Window Into Computation In a pair of studies, researchers use a novel way of examining data to explain how animals simultaneously encode tiny details and the big picture. Share This April 7, 2021 If you spent 2020 the same way I did — housebound, with an abundance of free time — perhaps you also directed your attention to the following critical but boring task: organizing your clothes. Imagine you have a two-drawer dresser, and you need to sort four types of garments: sweaters and T-shirts, either of which can be V-neck or crew neck. What’s the best way to ...

Credits: Credit: © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Caption: When they die, phytoplankton collectively sink through the water column as “marine snow,” carrying with them the carbon that they initially absorbed. Shown here are white flakes and pellets that typically make up sinking marine material. Credits: Credit: © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Previous image Next image The ocean’s “biological pump” describes the many marine processes that work to take up carbon dioxid...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The ocean’s “biological pump” describes the many marine processes that work to take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and transport it deep into the ocean, where it can remain sequestered for centuries. This ocean pump is a powerful regulator of atmospheric carbon dioxide and an essential ingredient in any global climate forecast. But a new MIT study points to a significant uncertainty in the way the biological pump is represented in climate models today. Researchers found that the “gold standard” equation used to calculate the pump’s stre...

 E-Mail IMAGE: The inner terrestrial protoplanets accrete early, inherit a substantial amount of radioactive 26Al, and hence melt, form iron cores, and degas their primordial volatile abundances rapidly. The outer Solar System... view more  Credit: Mark A Garlick/markgarlick.com An international team of researchers from the University of Oxford, LMU Munich, ETH Zurich, BGI Bayreuth, and the University of Zurich discovered that a two-step formation process of the early Solar System can explain the chronology and split in volatile and isotope content of the inner and outer Solar Syste...