Category: Quantum Stuff

September 19, 2025 3 min read Writing in Your Books Is Good for Your Brain—Here’s Why Annotating the margins of books is an important part of deep reading and has a long legacy of merit in both science and literature By Brianne Kane edited by Jeanna Bryner Readers on TikTok and Instagram are making the aesthetics… Continue reading The TikTok Trend of Writing in Margins Is Based on Real Neuroscience

Many scientists dream of winning a Nobel Prize, an accolade that brings worldwide recognition, prestige and a place in the pantheon of greatness alongside the likes of Albert Einstein, Marie Curie and Francis Crick. Then there are the other awards — the Ig Nobel prizes, which were devised to highlight research that makes people laugh,… Continue reading Tipsy Bats and Perfect Pasta Win Ig Nobel Prizes for Weird Science Research

In May, the Trump administration released its fiscal 2026 budget request, which called for cutting National Science Foundation and NASA science budgets by more than half. The administration’s proposed NOAA budget, released a few weeks later, proposes eliminating the agency’s scientific research arm altogether, terminating over 1,000 additional employees and shuttering around a dozen institutes,… Continue reading How Climate Scientists Saw the Future Before It Arrived

This Nature Outlook is editorially independent, produced with financial support from Avadel. A healthy diet and regular exercise have long been staples of weight management. But research shows that the role of sleep, which helps to regulate appetite hormones and calorie intake, is just as important. Esra Tasali, a sleep specialist at University of Chicago… Continue reading A Good Night’s Sleep Is Important for Weight Loss

The Earth’s atmosphere is nothing but freely roaming molecules. Left alone, they would drift and collide, and eventually even out into a mixture that’s dynamic, yet stable and broadly unchanging. The sun’s rays complicate things. Energy enters the Earth system in daily cycles, the bulk of it going to whichever half of the planet is… Continue reading The Climate Change Paradox | Quanta Magazine

Nearly 170 years ago, a scientist named Eunice Foote discovered a fundamental truth about the gases that surround us. In her home laboratory in New York, she filled one glass cylinder with carbon dioxide and another with regular air, placed a thermometer in each and left them out in the sun. Less than 20 minutes… Continue reading Photos Capture the Extreme, Beautiful Work of Climate Science

Intermediate Interest The eukaryotic cell, in some ways, looks as though it came out of nowhere. Unlike bacteria and archaea, which are much older forms of life called prokaryotes, a eukaryotic cell has a double membrane of lipids around it. It also has mitochondria — remnants of formerly free-living bacteria — providing energy, a nucleus… Continue reading Tiny Tubes Reveal Clues to the Evolution of Complex Life

This Nature Outlook is editorially independent, produced with financial support from Avadel. I never had issues with sleep until the COVID-19 pandemic. A couple of months into lockdown in 2020, I found myself unable to fall or stay asleep. My worries played on an unstoppable loop, and the longer I lay in bed, the more… Continue reading One Woman’s Pharmaceutical Journey to a Good Night’s Sleep

Single Atom Acts as a Quantum Computer and Simulates Molecules A quantum computer has used a single atom to model the complex dynamics of organic molecules interacting with light By Davide Castelvecchi & Nature magazine A view inside the trapped-ion quantum computer that carried out a first-of-its-kind simulation of molecular chemistry. The University of Sydney/Sciencebrush.design… Continue reading A Single Atom Has Achieved a Breakthrough in Quantum Simulation