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Computing

Can You Face It?

The University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, has developed some face-transforming software that allows people to change the age, sex, or ethnicity of the person in an image that you export from your computer. Or, blend features from a number of faces into one amalgam. If all that is too creepy, then just import art […]

Humans

From the August 21, 1937, issue

Solar astronomers argue over the influence of sunspots on the weather, Hubble (the man, not the telescope) finds a comet, and paramecia discover sex.

Earth

O River Deltas, Where Art Thou? Coastal sinking stalls sediment accumulation

The western coast of Siberia lacks river deltas because of the way the terrain has subsided since the end of the last ice age.