Total Solar Eclipses Are Cosmic Coincidences That Won’t Last Forever Earthlings are very lucky to see the spectacle of a total solar eclipse By Meghan Bartels Science History Images/Alamy Stock Photo This article is part of a special report on the total solar eclipse that will be visible from parts of the U.S., Mexico and… Continue reading Total Solar Eclipses Are Cosmic Coincidences That Won’t Last Forever
Medicaid Expansion Alone Won’t Stop the Opioid Overdose Crisis
Medicaid Expansion Alone Isn’t Enough to Stop the Opioid Overdose Crisis Expanding the state and federal insurance program helps prevent overdoses. But that only happens with enough treatment, and legal reform, to make it work By Hannah L. F. Cooper, Courtney R. Yarbrough, Umedjon Ibragimov, Janet Cummings & Danielle Haley People are seen outside a… Continue reading Medicaid Expansion Alone Won’t Stop the Opioid Overdose Crisis
Do Unicorns Exist?
Podcast: Download MYS316: Pop culture imagines unicorns as horses with a single horn in their forehead and associates them with cartoons and rainbows and social movements. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore their deep roots in history and long association with the Christian faith and whether there could be real unicorns. Get all new episodes… Continue reading Do Unicorns Exist?
Searching for the Truth About the Raid at Mar-a-Lago
By Julie Kelly, RealClearInvestigationsJune 13, 2024 Top officials at the Department of Justice are downplaying recently disclosed documents showing FBI agents were authorized to use deadly force during their 2022 raid of Donald Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago. Responding to Trump’s claim that “Joe Biden was locked & loaded ready to take me out & put… Continue reading Searching for the Truth About the Raid at Mar-a-Lago
Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang
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