Photographs are often used to establish the identity of an individual or to verify that they are who they claim to be. Yet, recent research shows that it is surprisingly difficult to match a photo to a face. Neither humans nor machines can perform this task reliably. Although human perceivers are good at matching familiar faces, performance with unfamiliar faces is strikingly poor. The situatio...

In a recent article in the Science & Society section of this journal [1], Olivola and colleagues delivered a powerful argument about fighting the phenomenon that they called ‘face-ism’. (i) Many important social decisions are made on the basis of people’s facial appearance. (ii) Social inferences based on facial appearance are inaccurate and unreliable. (iii) Therefore, we need to stop people f...

The present research focuses on a detailed facies description and interpretation of five alluvial fans of the Qazvin Plain. Beside the tectonic activity that leads to the localization of the fans on the northern margin of the Qazvin Plain, the climate has a significant role in the occurrence of their facies. The alluvial fans are divided into three facies groups: group 1, group 2, and group 3. ...

Large tropical mountain glacier (TMG) deposits on the northwest flanks of the Tharsis Montes and Olympus Mons volcanoes are interpreted to be the record of ancient climates characteristic of Mars several hundred million years ago when planetary spin-axis obliquity was 451. During this era, polar volatiles (predominantly H2O) were mobilized and transferred equatorward, undergoing adiabatic cooli...

The eastern part of the Adelaide Geosyncline contains well preserved glaciomarine sequences of the Sturtian glaciation (:750–700 Ma) including calcareous or dolomitic siltstone, manganiferous siltstone, dolostone and diamictite units and the associated Braemar ironstone facies. The ironstone facies occurs as matrix to diamictites and as massive to laminated ironstones and comprises abundant Fe ...

Aghajari Formation, known as Upper Fars Group, is developed throughout the Folded Zagros Zone and has a thickness of 2966 m in its type section in SW of Iran and 1473 m in the study area, located 20 km west of Shiraz. Aghajari Formation, in this area, consists of three major facies associations. These are "fine", "medium" and "coarse" grained terrigenous sediments, usually interpreted as channe...

Comparisons of paleofaunas from different facies are often hampered by the uncertainty in the variation of taphonomic processes biasing the paleoecological parameters of interest. By examining the taphonomic patterns exhibited by different facies in the same stratigraphic interval and area, it is possible to quantify this variation, and assess inter-facies comparability. The fossil assemblages ...