Analyzing 300-year-old fingerprints?
Monthly roundup from Science Journal for Kids and Teens
Welcome to November!
It has been a crazy month in the US Southeast with hurricanes Helene and Milton. It’s clear that hurricanes do a lot of damage on land, but have you ever considered the damage they can do to marine and freshwater habitats and resources? Check out our collections on water resources to explore these topics and many others:
The Marine Protected Areas Collection - rarely do environmental issues come with such straightforward win-win solutions! Here’s the research to illustrate them.
The Fisheries Collection presents research focusing on sustainable fish stock management
The Corals Collection zooms in on these reef-building symbiotic organisms.
Or check out the full Water Resources Collection.
Another fun new topic we covered this month is art forensics - a rarely used word combination which includes the investigation of possible forgeries or deception in art attribution using modern technologies.
In What can fingerprints tell us about artists? researchers used a CT scan to analyze fingerprints left on an 18th-century terracotta sculpture to determine information about the artist.
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That’s all for now. If you ever want to reach out or give us feedback, respond to this email and I will receive it personally. I wish you a great month!
Tanya Dimitrova
Editor-in-Chief