Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves Tamsin Mather Abacus (2024) Unlike Alice in Alice in Wonderland, volcanologists cannot fall down a deep rabbit hole to discover what goes on in the bowels of the Earth. Instead, they scour the surface and examine the chemistry of emitted gases, lava and … Read more
Losing a funding competition didn’t set Ellen Stofan back — instead, she did a career pivot, and came across new opportunities.Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky In 2021, planetary scientist Ellen Stofan was appointed undersecretary of science and research at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the US national research and museum complex. There, she oversees its scientific … Read more
The Ecology of Collective Behavior Deborah M. Gordon Princeton Univ. Press(2023) Collective behaviours are present throughout nature — from groups of genes being activated simultaneously to shoals of fish swimming in unison for protection against predators and mounds of insects working together to build nests. But biologist Deborah Gordon worries that the evolutionary biologists who … Read more