Day: October 6, 2019

‘More women are being nominated’: Nobel academy head discusses diversity (By Elizabeth Gibney, via: nature.com)

Ahead of this year’s award announcements, Göran Hansson speaks about measures to address the imbalance in gender and ethnicity among winners. Göran Hansson has been secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2015.Credit: Markus Marcetic/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Next week, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will award the first Nobel... Continue Reading →

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Hidden writing revealed on ancient scroll buried in same ash as Pompeii (By Eva Frederick, Oct. 4, 2019, via: sciencemag.org )

More than 2000 years ago, the Greek philosopher Philodemus (or one of his scribes) painstakingly inked a history of the country’s great thinkers, called History of the Academy, on a giant scroll of papyrus. A few decades later, Mount Vesuvius in what is now Italy blew its top, burying Pompeii and the nearby city of Herculaneum,... Continue Reading →

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