Tiny worms reveal backup circuits that keep survival reflexes from failing

A research team led by Professor Chaogu Zheng from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), in ...
GitHub

skin.scad

This file provides functions and modules that construct shapes from a list of cross sections. In the case of skin() you specify each cross sectional shape yourself, and the number of points can vary.
GitHub

Python code made to run on a Numworks calculator

This code displays a colorful Julia Fractal. It uses the kandinsky and math modules. This code displays a text output of the Mandelbrot fractal. The text is colored, to achieve this the kandinsky ...
PNAS

Unusual bone bed reveals a vertebrate community with pterosaurs and turtles in equatorial Pangaea before the end-Triassic extinction

PFV 393 is the first radioisotopically dated (209.187 ± 0.083 Ma old) high-diversity continental vertebrate fossil assemblage to fill a 12-Ma fossil gap preceding the end-Triassic extinction. The ...
The New York Times

Why He Kayaked Across the Atlantic at 70 (for the Third Time)

For Aleksander Doba, pitting himself against the wide-open sea — storms, sunstroke, monotony, hunger and loneliness — is a way to feel alive in old age. March 22, 2018 March 22, 2018 March 22, 2018 ...