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How Brain Scans Can Help Astronomers Understand Stars

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They may come from completely different fields of study, but brain scans and supernovae have more in common than you would think.

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Leonardo’s Formula Explains Why Trees Don’t Splinter

Leonardo’s Formula Explains Why Trees Don’t Splinter | Science News | Scoop.it
Trees almost always grow so that the total thickness of their branches at a particular height is equal to the thickness of their trunks. Until now, no one has been able to explain why trees obey this rule, which Leonardo da Vinci first noticed.
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My ScientificBlogging.com piece on cities and brains

My ScientificBlogging.com piece on cities and brains | Science News | Scoop.it

Are the people of China actually organized in a brain-like fashion? This is not a thought experiment, but a genuine question. A silly question, you might say. But countries do tend to be cohesive complex systems that function via the movement of people, goods and information. In fact, cities are more cohesively organized than countries, and the same question can be asked of them: Are cities organized like brains?

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