Technique allows estimation of the force acting on each grain of sand in a dune

Brazilian researchers have developed a technique that estimates the force exerted on each grain of sand in a dune from images ...

The Most Vexing Variable in the Search for E.T.

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

Building a stable ‘abode of thought’: Kant’s rules for virtuous thinking

Rule 3 tells us to construct our abode of thought with the same care as when constructing a house, such that stability ...