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Celebrate the rythmn of the natural world with Margaret Renkle (opens the original)
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Bestselling author, editor, and columnist Margaret Renkl has written about flora, fauna, and culture for nearly a decade. Learn about her work, writing, and love for the natural world as we discuss “The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year” and more. Join the Science Friday Book Club for a live Q&A where we’ll be taking your questions in the YouTube livestream chat. Come with your curiosity! You do not need to have read the book to participate. We are pleased to offer live English closed captioning
Play this game to build critical thinking and science literacy (opens the original)
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Games can be an exciting way to engage students’ curiosity as they learn. That’s one reason Science Friday partnered with the Grand Gamers Guild to create Endangered Rescue: Chambered Nautilus, a compact, escape room-style puzzle game that pairs an 18-card deck with a companion website. Players take on the role of science journalists hosting a symposium about the chambered nautilus. Along the way, they’ll solve puzzles, search an aquarium for clues, and discover the extraordinary science behind
Myth or math? Is the nautilus shell’s golden ratio real? (opens the original)
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The chambered nautilus has inspired plenty of big clams, we mean, claims! Its coiled shell is commonly pictured alongside the golden ratio, a number associated with spirals, rectangles, art, architecture, and patterns in nature. But placing two similar-looking shapes next to each other isn’t enough to prove a mathematical relationship. Just as scientists in the video below tested assumptions about whether nautiluses can learn, you can test this shell claim using evidence. In this math activity,
Can a living fossil learn new tricks? Meet the nautilus! (opens the original)
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Have you ever heard the expression, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”? Well, researchers at Brooklyn College, CUNY Graduate Center, decided to try to teach an old species of cephalopod new tricks by testing the chambered nautilus’s memory. Cephalopods, such as octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish, are fascinating marine creatures. One of them, the ancient chambered nautilus, was swimming the oceans before dinosaurs existed, and this species is still around today in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, livi
From scraps to soil: the dirt on the (not so lowly) worm (opens the original)
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Did you know that worms can turn your leftovers into soil? It might not look like much, but a pile of food scraps, paper, and dirt can be something incredibly valuable. In nature, nothing goes to waste. Instead, organisms like microbes, fungi, and worms break down dead material and recycle it back into the ecosystem. Scientists call this process decomposition. When humans help manage it, by creating the right mix of materials, moisture, and air, it becomes composting, or what scientists call pur
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