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Am thrilled to report here that Scilight just launched a new gold open-access journal, "Brain, AI and Cognition", of which I am the editor in chief. Below you can see the front page of a leaflet I will soon be distributing at the

A 1979 seismic event was a different kind of earthquake, and it is has intrigued scientists ever since.

A new look at old data has provided some additional answers.

On Feb. 24th, 1979, seismographs recorded a magnitude 3.8 earthquake under Randolph, Utah, located near the Idaho and Wyoming borders.

Yet no one felt a thing and the seismic data made no obviou...

In times of social rancor and strife, most will fight each other, but societies are saved by those who think about the bigger issue.

There is a lesson humans could learn from wasps. Polistes canadensis wasps are more like China than a democracy, so when their ruler dies, power struggles and social turmoil result. Amidst the violence and chaos, individuals co...

Europe alone has so much unpublished, un-catalogued biological data that it is challenging to take surveys and estimates about extinction risk and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the EU's claim it will protect 30 percent of land and sea by 2030 seriously. 

A new paper revealed government's don't even know what they are not protecting already. The wor...

A new computer estimate says that the ocean is an important carbon sink that absorbs 40 to 60 percent of China's anthropogenic CO2 emissions but tropical cyclones prevent the oceans from absorbing more.

Understanding the impact of the ocean on sequestering carbon is important, because China builds two new coal plants each week and emits more pollution than the rest of the...