About 13.8 billion years ago, the entire cosmos consisted of a tiny, hot, dense ball of energy that suddenly exploded. That’s how everything began, according to the standard scientific story of the Big Bang, a theory that first took shape in the 1920s. The story has been refined over the decades, most notably in the… Continue reading Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang
Cryptographers Discover a New Foundation for Quantum Secrecy
Ma began brainstorming how best to approach that question, together with Alex Lombardi, a cryptographer at Princeton University, and John Wright, a quantum computing researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. “It was just so fascinating and so mind-bending that I was immediately hooked,” Wright said. After thinking about the question for a while and… Continue reading Cryptographers Discover a New Foundation for Quantum Secrecy
‘No Excuses’: Can a Return to Traditional Discipline Save Public Schools?
By Vince Bielski, RealClearInvestigationsJune 10, 2024 COLUMBUS, Ohio—On a bright morning in May at the Columbus Collegiate Academy Main, orderliness is on display. Students in khakis and blue tops carrying bulging backpacks walk briskly in line through the front doors of the single-story brick building – looking like young people who really want to be… Continue reading ‘No Excuses’: Can a Return to Traditional Discipline Save Public Schools?
The Simplest Math Problem Could Be Unsolvable
At first glance, the problem seems ridiculously simple. And yet experts have been searching for a solution in vain for decades. According to mathematician Jeffrey Lagarias, number theorist Shizuo Kakutani told him that during the cold war, “for about a month everybody at Yale [University] worked on it, with no result. A similar phenomenon happened… Continue reading The Simplest Math Problem Could Be Unsolvable
How to Make Hybrid Work a Success, according to Science
Certain aspects of scientific life do not lend themselves to working from home. Archaeologist Adrià Breu, who studies neolithic pottery at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, can’t dig for artefacts in his kitchen, and Claudia Sala’s experiments in molecular microbiology at the Toscana Life Sciences Foundation in Siena, Italy, oblige her to commute to… Continue reading How to Make Hybrid Work a Success, according to Science
How Japan’s ‘Moon Sniper’ Mission Hit Its Mark
When Japan’s solar-powered SLIM spacecraft made a lopsided-but-successful touchdown on the moon in mid-January, most news coverage focused on the feat as a historic first for the nation—only the fifth after the U.S., the former Soviet Union, China and India to ever achieve a soft lunar landing. But the most historic aspect of SLIM—which stands… Continue reading How Japan’s ‘Moon Sniper’ Mission Hit Its Mark
The Human Cost of Biden’s Border Policies
Joe Biden took executive action to limit asylum seekers at the border. This sudden and isolated attempt to distract American voters from 3 ½ years of disastrous open border policies is far too little and far too late. Being a son and grandson of immigrants, I have deep respect for the immense contributions to our country… Continue reading The Human Cost of Biden’s Border Policies
Most Life on Earth is Dormant, After Pulling an ‘Emergency Brake’
Researchers recently reported the discovery of a natural protein, named Balon, that can bring a cell’s production of new proteins to a screeching halt. Balon was found in bacteria that hibernate in Arctic permafrost, but it also seems to be made by many other organisms and may be an overlooked mechanism for dormancy throughout the… Continue reading Most Life on Earth is Dormant, After Pulling an ‘Emergency Brake’
Parents on a Mission: How One Activist Group Aims to Reclaim American Schools
Parents Defending Education (PDE) is an advocacy organization founded in response to concerns about the increasing influence of activist agendas in K-12 schools, particularly highlighted during the pandemic. Recently, PDE joined a Title IX lawsuit challenging the Biden Administration’s new rules on including transgender athletes in women’s sports. RealClearEducation had a conversation with Nicole Neily,… Continue reading Parents on a Mission: How One Activist Group Aims to Reclaim American Schools
The Soul of Frankenstein’s Monster (& More Patron Questions)
Podcast: Download MYS315: We regularly give Patrons the opportunity to ask Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli their mysterious questions and make them available exclusively to Patrons first and then later to the whole audience. This time the questions cover Frankenstein’s monster; the Piedmont UFO flap; pyramids and floods; and more. Get all new episodes automatically… Continue reading The Soul of Frankenstein’s Monster (& More Patron Questions)