What Is Pi, and How Did It Originate? | Scientific American
WEBMay 17, 1999 · The Sciences. Succinctly, pi—which is written as the Greek letter for p, or π—is the ratio of the circumference of any circle to the diameter of that circle. Regardless of the circle's size ...
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Flat Earthers: What They Believe and Why | Scientific American
WEBMar 27, 2020 · Flat Earthers: What They Believe and Why. Michael Marshall, project director of the Good Thinking Society in the U.K., talks about flat earth belief and its relationship to conspiracy theories and ...
The Inner Life of Cats - Scientific American
WEBOct 1, 2018 · Cats and dogs belong to a group of mammals known as Carnivora, and the wild ancestors of both species dined primarily on meat. Recent DNA analyses indicate that over the course of their evolution ...
Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex …
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10 Solutions for Climate Change - Scientific American
WEBNov 26, 2007 · Forego Fossil Fuels —The first challenge is eliminating the burning of coal, oil and, eventually, natural gas. This is perhaps the most daunting challenge as denizens of richer nations literally ...
How Scientists Discovered the Staggering Complexity of Human …
WEBSep 1, 2020 · The human saga, we now understand, is far more intricate than scholars of yore envisioned. The tidy tropes of our prehistory have collapsed under the weight of evidence: there is no single missing ...
What We’ve Lost: The Species Declared Extinct in 2020
WEBJan 13, 2021 · The NSW government still lists it as “. presumed extinct. ,” but the IUCN placed it fully in the “extinct” category in 2020. Nazareno (Monteverdia lineata) —Scientific papers declared ...
Does Music Boost Your Cognitive Performance? - Scientific American
WEBMar 3, 2020 · Cognition. Music makes life better in so many ways. It elevates mood, reduces stress and eases pain. Music is heart-healthy, because it can lower blood pressure, reduce heart rate and decrease ...
Strange but True: Earth Is Not Round | Scientific American
WEBApr 12, 2007 · Isaac Newton first proposed that Earth was not perfectly round. Instead, he suggested it was an oblate spheroid—a sphere that is squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator. He was correct ...
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