Follow The New Yorker - Elements, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/the-new-yorker-d-elements Tue, 31 Jan 2023 02:50:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWuAsQeW-i7nVClmFkX7M1Jw Some of the world’s first flowers burned in wildfires more than a hundred million years ago. Else Marie Friis rediscovered them.]]> Mon, 02 Jan 2023 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWuAsQeW-i7nVClmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWs6n59jha3del1cWWor9YPv From asteroids to A.I., this was a year of scientific superlatives.]]> Wed, 28 Dec 2022 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWs6n59jha3del1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWuUBIQANYSnu-T5HJgy6HUf Japan’s space agency, JAXA, hired Takara Tomy to design a rolling lunar robot called SORA-Q. 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What are they trying to achieve?]]> Thu, 24 Nov 2022 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWtH2_WBxDepAOzdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWum6ihB3dk6HyejEQ2Mq9rY Metabolism, which unleashes the energy in what you eat, may be nature’s most electrifying invention.]]> Tue, 25 Oct 2022 18:45:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWum6ihB3dk6HyejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWuE_FWcPgcVUpVjH6qdYdAk The DART mission, in which a spacecraft knocked an asteroid off course, is a rehearsal for saving the world.]]> Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:23:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWuE_FWcPgcVUpVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWthARpqheY455VjH6qdYdAk An obscure software system synchronizes the network’s clocks. Who will keep it running?]]> Fri, 30 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWthARpqheY455VjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWunH2jiwUF9k-T5HJgy6HUf One of the most captivating concepts in mathematics is now on Netflix.]]> Mon, 26 Sep 2022 17:00:55 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWunH2jiwUF9k-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWuHWM5BcYXZc-T5HJgy6HUf Rivka Galchen writes about a new book, “The Year of the Puppy,” by Alexandra Horowitz, the head scientist at Barnard College’s Dog Cognition Lab, that explores how dogs and people grow up together.]]> Sun, 18 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWuHWM5BcYXZc-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWsuZz5kaCKCliejEQ2Mq9rY Critics argue that new proposals to make math accessible to more kids will widen the privilege gap, and end up shutting out students of color.]]> Thu, 08 Sep 2022 23:06:05 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWsuZz5kaCKCliejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWuDL5FG0_fRFcb1naedg1wr Where does a game like Star Fox, Super Mario Bros., or Sharknado: The Video Game actually come from?]]> Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:58:42 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWuDL5FG0_fRFcb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWv73-t2DKxtfnn9ye8UNv30 In a place where the summer sun shines for twenty-one hours a day, climate change is helping to turn frozen ground into farmland.]]> Tue, 30 Aug 2022 22:12:02 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWv73-t2DKxtfnn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWuuU_pw6BBR--T5HJgy6HUf On the right machine, typing can be like playing a Steinway grand. Is tactile perfection possible?]]> Fri, 26 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWuuU_pw6BBR--T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWuz-1XLHG6tQuzdsCmHakzH A new history reveals that federal regulators consistently assured Americans that the risks of a massive accident were “vanishingly small”—even when they knew they had insufficient evidence to prove it.]]> Sat, 13 Aug 2022 17:22:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWuz-1XLHG6tQuzdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWtvNgcIOsQc4KCY3L745TL_ In an age of more intense storms, forecasters explain their aims.]]> Mon, 08 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWtvNgcIOsQc4KCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWvqK80Tk4OEjJs0ohxaO6Yr A bottled-water company tapped an ancient aquifer that thousands of people and businesses share. Then came the protests.]]> Wed, 03 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWvqK80Tk4OEjJs0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWvBCo4j66ENkqCY3L745TL_ A trick of the light is helping scientists turn optical fibres into potential disaster detectors.]]> Tue, 26 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWvBCo4j66ENkqCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWut85qbTcwIc11cWWor9YPv Reminiscent of Vermeer, but carrying news of the origins of the universe, the photos are just the beginning.]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2022 23:43:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/78lfbdE9QWut85qbTcwIc11cWWor9YPv