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Film sets are like families, says Hirokazu Kore-eda. They are loose social structures, nominally hierarchical and ideally geared towards a common goal. While the Japanese director accepts that this puts him in the role of the father, he disputes the suggestion that this automatically makes him the boss. He supposes the cast are the children – often literally so. “The time we all spend together,” he says, “is very intense. The cast and crew become very important to me.” But at the end of each shoot, the unit collapses, the…

University of Helsinki researchers discovered extensive aerosol particle formation in the West Siberian taiga, contradicting previous beliefs and linking it to heatwave conditions and a warming climate. This significant finding, enhancing understanding of climate interactions, calls for more research in boreal forests to inform climate modeling and policy decisions. Credit: SciTechDaily.comRecent research has discovered that, in contrast to earlier assumptions, substantial quantities of aerosol particles are generated…

Scientists are putting forward a new explanation for the giant exploding craters that seem to be randomly appearing in the Siberian permafrost.These craters, first spotted in 2012, have been popping up in the deserted Siberian permafrost, puzzling scientists.They can be substantial, reaching more than 160 feet in depth and 65 feet in width, and blasting chunks of debris hundreds of feet away.Some reports have suggested the blasts can be heard 60 miles away.Now scientists are proposing that hot natural gas seeping from…

Sulfuric acid, temperature, and particle formation rates. Median diel evolution of sulfuric acid (n= 19 and 7) (a), temperature (n = 22 and 7) (b) and particle formation rates at 1.6 nm J1.6 (n = 20 and 7) (c). Solid lines show medians with shaded areas representing 25th to 75th percentiles. Panel (d) depicts J1.6 as a function of sulfuric acid concentration. Early spring is characterized by higher sulfuric acid concentration and lower temperature…

The remains of three people who died on a riverbank in the Kamchatka Peninsula in northeastern Siberia some 500 years ago have yielded a surprising secret: Their DNA shows they had some North American ancestry, according to a study published today. Considered alongside other ancient and modern genomes, the results suggest that although the ancestors of today’s Native Americans came from Asia, the passage was not one way. Instead, the Bering Sea region was a place…

Science has long known that people living in what is now Siberia once walked (and later paddled boats) across the Being Strait into North America. But new evidence now shows that these early migrations weren’t one-way trips: in a study published on Thursday in Current Biology, researchers say they have uncovered traces of Native American ancestry in the DNA of Siberians who lived centuries ago. This American heritage—still present in the genomes of some Siberians today—adds to a scattering of archeological evidence…

As the world warms up, vast tranches of permafrost are melting, releasing material that's been trapped in its icy grip for years. This includes a slew of microbes that have lain dormant for hundreds of millennia in some cases.To study the emerging microbes, scientists have now revived a number of these "zombie viruses" from Siberian permafrost, including one thought to be nearly 50,000 years old – a record age for a frozen virus returning to a state capable of infecting other organisms.The team behind the work, led by…

Leonid Ragozin / Rest of World: A profile of inDriver, a ride-hailing app developed in Siberia in 2012, which lets riders and drivers haggle over prices and is now available in 42 countries — InDriver's unique haggling feature has seen it expand from its roots in Yakutia to markets around the world. — • YAKUTSK, RUSSIA Leonid Ragozin / Rest of World: A profile of inDriver, a ride-hailing app developed in Siberia in 2012, which lets riders and drivers haggle over prices and…

Some 252 million years ago the world was going through a tumultuous period of rapid global warming.To understand what caused it, scientists have looked to one particular event in which a volcanic eruption in what is now Siberia spewed huge volumes of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.  However, there is evidence the climate was already changing before this.Sea surface temperatures had increased by more than 6-8 ℃ in the hundreds of thousands of years leading up to the Siberian outpouring. Temperatures increased again…