100 Years of Quantum Weirdness Powers Today's Tech
Lesley Henton, Texas A&M
A hundred years ago, quantum mechanics was a radical theory that baffled even the brightest minds. Today, it's the backbone of technologies that shape our lives,...
Lesley Henton, Texas A&M
A hundred years ago, quantum mechanics was a radical theory that baffled even the brightest minds. Today, it's the backbone of technologies that shape our lives,...
Marianne Guenot, Live Science
Small changes in exercise, sleep and dietary habits could do wonders for people's health and possibly extend their overall lifespan, a large U.K. study...
Eric Berger, Ars
As Ars reported last week, NASA's plan to...
Eric Berger, Ars Technica
The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the "
Robert Bartholomew, Psychology Today
The recent surge in peptide injections is a textbook example of a modern health craze. Crazes differ from fads in that the latter involve an intense but...
Elizabeth Rayne, Pop Mech
Entropy. The word itself should cause insomnia. It means that matter and energy will degrade—ultimately leading to...
Ethan Siegel, Big Think
One of the most remarkable facts about the Universe is simply that, over the past couple of centuries, humanity has actually been able to make sense of much of it at...
Elise Cutts, Quanta
Imagine if our skies were always filled with a thick layer of opaque clouds. With no way to see the stars, or to view our planet from above, would we have ever discovered...
Kasper Zoellner, AAS NOVA
Since the discovery of PSR B1257+12 c and d in 1992 and
Jeffrey Kluger, Time
Solar storms can knock a wired planet sideways, disrupting communication and navigation satellites, power grids, defense systems, data centers, weather forecasting, and...
Roger Pielke, Jr., The Honest Broker
The recent change in the climate conversation has been stunning, as noted above by Axios. Catastrophism is out, pragmatism is in.
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Mass General Brigham
Researchers at Mass General Brigham and Karolinska Institutet have identified a new method to predict asthma exacerbations with a high degree of accuracy. The study is...
Siobhan Roberts, New York Times
"Cutting a Pancake with an Exotic Knife" might seem an unusual title for a piece of academic research. But that was the focus of the paper
USC
Shingles vaccination not only protects against the disease but may also contribute to slower biological aging in older adults, according to a
McGill University
An interdisciplinary team including researchers at McGill University has found a range of unexpected chemical contaminants in human milk samples from Canada and South...
EurekAlert!
Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus University researchers have demonstrated that protein building blocks essential for life as we know it can form readily in space. This...