The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a glitch in its bird flu test hasn’t harmed the agency’s outbreak response. But it has ignited scrutiny of its go-it-alone approach in testing for emerging pathogens. The agency has quietly worked since April to resolve a nagging issue with the test it developed, even as the… Continue reading The CDC’s Test for Bird Flu Works, but It Has Issues
The Beginning of the Revolution Our Kids Need
A revolution is underway. Parents, physicians, and principals have seen the devastation inflicted on an entire generation of children raised on screens, and they are taking bold steps to end “phone-based childhood.” Politicians are joining the cause, too, with Congress on the brink of passing bi-partisan legislation to protect kids online – the first significant law… Continue reading The Beginning of the Revolution Our Kids Need
What Are Sheaves? | Quanta Magazine
In 1940, the French mathematician and artillery officer Jean Leray was taken prisoner by the Germans. He told his captors that he was a topologist, fearful that if they discovered his true area of expertise, hydrodynamics, they would force him to aid the German war effort. For the nearly five years of his imprisonment, Leray… Continue reading What Are Sheaves? | Quanta Magazine
Democrats vs. the Man Who Could Get to the Bottom of the Trump Shooting
Rep. Bennie Thompson, Jan. 6 panel chairman: Called on the inquisitive Inspector General Cuffari to resign. AP His office subsequently opened a criminal investigation into the matter. “The USSS erased those text messages after OIG [Office of Inspector General] requested records of electronic communications from the USSS, as part of our evaluation of events at the Capitol… Continue reading Democrats vs. the Man Who Could Get to the Bottom of the Trump Shooting
Signs of Ancient Alien Life May Lurk within This Newfound Martian Rock
In a dry river valley on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover may at last have found its reason for being: evidence of ancient alien life—and with it, a lifeline for the space agency’s grand but troubled plan to bring Red Planet materials to Earth. This potentially cosmos-quaking evidence may look like merely a humble rock, but… Continue reading Signs of Ancient Alien Life May Lurk within This Newfound Martian Rock
Overturning Chevron: A Wrong Made Right
This June, the Supreme Court struck a major blow to the bureaucratic behemoth of the administrative state by overturning Chevron. The 1984 Chevron decision had long directed courts to defer to the administrative state’s interpretation of the law, granting enormous powers, including the judicial branch’s core power of interpreting law, to an unelected, entrenched bureaucracy.… Continue reading Overturning Chevron: A Wrong Made Right
Monumental Proof Settles Geometric Langlands Conjecture
In classical signal processing, sound waves get built up out of sine waves whose frequencies correspond to the pitches contained in the sound. It’s not enough to know which pitches the sound contains — you must also know how loud each pitch is. That information allows you to write your sound as a combination of… Continue reading Monumental Proof Settles Geometric Langlands Conjecture
How America’s Democratic Foundation Promotes Innovation and U.S. Security
The United States is in a global competition with other nations for leadership in critical and emerging technologies. To succeed, we must protect the national treasures that will ensure America leads the world in such fields as semiconductors, artificial intelligence, advanced communications and biotechnology. In this race to the top of innovation dominance, the United… Continue reading How America’s Democratic Foundation Promotes Innovation and U.S. Security
Vacuum of Space to Decay Sooner Than Expected (but Still Not Soon)
Vacuum decay, a process that could end the universe as we know it, may happen 10,000 times sooner than expected. Fortunately, it still won’t happen for a very, very long time. When physicists speak of “the vacuum,” the term sounds as though it refers to empty space, and in a sense it does. More specifically,… Continue reading Vacuum of Space to Decay Sooner Than Expected (but Still Not Soon)
Book Review: Nathaniel Ellison’s Essential ‘Crypto Confidential’
Shein is a Singapore-based clothier that makes clothes in just-in-time fashion as a way of it relentlessly trying to mirror the needs and styles of its users. While future brides frequently purchase custom-made wedding dresses, Shein makes it possible for its customers to buy every clothing item as though they’re a bride. Have you heard… Continue reading Book Review: Nathaniel Ellison’s Essential ‘Crypto Confidential’