Matthew Carney, ABC News
What may sound like a dystopian vision of the future is already happening in China. And it's making and breaking lives.The Communist Party calls it social credit and says it will be fully operational by 2020.
John Mecklin, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Perhaps the most dangerous weapons program the US government has recently pursued involves a low-yield nuclear warhead for submarine-launched nuclear missiles. The arguments against development of such small nukes are legion and overwhelmingly compelling.
Kristin Romey, National Geographic
In the leadup to a press conference held Wednesday in Providence, Rhode Island, news headlines around the world were announcing the possible discovery of the H.M.B. Endeavour, made famous when Captain James Cook sailed it around the world in the later 18th century, charting the east coast of Australia for the first time.
Emily Conover, SciNews
Diana Parno's head swam when she first stepped inside the enormous, metallic vessel of the experiment KATRIN. Within the house-sized, oblong structure, everything was symmetrical, clean and blindingly shiny, says Parno, a physicist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. It was incredibly disorienting.
Sam Lemonick, Chemistry World
You might want to leave the lights on tonight; scientists say ghosts can exist. Theorists predict conditions to create a so-called ghost moleculea single atom with electron density that resembles that of unusual two-atom molecules (Phys. Rev. Lett. 2018, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.113203).Besides expanding chemists' understanding of chemical bonding, these oddities could serve as components of quantum computers, if researchers can find a way to make them.
