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Comic Artist Maps the History of Languages with an Illustrated Linguistic Tree
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Comic Artist Maps the History of Languages with an Illustrated Linguistic Tree

Using research from Ethnologue, Minna Sundberg created this amazing infographic in the form of a magnificent tree, which illustrates the ancient linguistic links between the world’s languages. Trees and branches are often used by linguists as a visual metaphor to explain language origination. This tree model explains the connections between groups of languages, which all descend from a common ancestral…

Elemental music: Interactive periodic table turns He, Fe, Ca into Do, Re, Mi
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Elemental music: Interactive periodic table turns He, Fe, Ca into Do, Re, Mi

We’re all familiar with the elements of the periodic table, but have you ever wondered what hydrogen or zinc, for example, might sound like? W. Walker Smith, now a graduate student at Indiana University, combined his twin passions of chemistry and music to create what he calls a new audio-visual instrument to communicate the concepts of chemical…

Using Bacteria to Convert CO2 in The Air to Polyester
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Using Bacteria to Convert CO2 in The Air to Polyester

As climate change progresses, scientists around the world continue to look for ways to both prevent emissions and to scrub emissions from the air. In this new effort, the researchers took another look at the possibility of using Cupriavidus necator, a type of bacteria, to pull CO2 from the air and then to use it to make a type…