The approach has been fruitful. In 2022, Gore and colleagues discovered that ecological communities undergo phase transitions — a core organizing principle in physics that describes, for example, water’s change from solid ice to liquid to gas. As the researchers increased either the number of species in their experimental ecosystems or the strength of the… Continue reading The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion
The Uncertainty in the Aftermath of the U.S. Bombing in Iran
The U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear sites Sunday had a concrete strategic objective: thwart Iran’s ability to enrich nuclear material and potentially build nuclear weapons. It was intended to make the world a safer place. At the moment, however, the world remains a dangerous place. This is the case despite a ceasefire between Iran and… Continue reading The Uncertainty in the Aftermath of the U.S. Bombing in Iran
What Causes Glaciers to Collapse like the Event That Buried a Swiss Village?
What Causes Glaciers to Collapse like the Event That Buried a Swiss Village? Climate change and thawing permafrost play a role in destabilizing glaciers By Jen Schwartz edited by Dean Visser The small village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps was largely destroyed by a landslide that occurred as a result of the partial collapse… Continue reading What Causes Glaciers to Collapse like the Event That Buried a Swiss Village?
Five Priorities for Advancing NATO’s Space Mission
NATO has been throttling up its efforts in the space domain. In relatively fast order, the alliance has moved from recognizing the growing role of space—developing a formal Space Policy and defining space as an operational domain—to operationalizing NATO’s role in space. This latter stage has focused on efforts to improve the alliance’s space domain… Continue reading Five Priorities for Advancing NATO’s Space Mission
How AI Models Are Helping to Understand — and Control — the Brain
For Martin Schrimpf, the promise of artificial intelligence is not in the tasks it can accomplish. It’s in what AI might reveal about human intelligence. He is working to build a “digital twin” of the brain using artificial neural networks — AI models loosely inspired by how neurons communicate with one another. That end goal… Continue reading How AI Models Are Helping to Understand — and Control — the Brain
Actionable Options Exist for Canada to Enhance Its Arctic Sovereignty
In December 2024, Ottawa announced a new Arctic policy (PDF) articulating that it must invest more people and resources to enhance its sovereignty over its vast High North—comprising 25 percent of the entire Arctic. Then–Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly argued that “the evolving security and political realities in the region mean we need a new approach… Continue reading Actionable Options Exist for Canada to Enhance Its Arctic Sovereignty
The Telepathy Tapes
The Telepathy Tapes < !- end of Google Analytics Code Snippet by GA4WP–> // tabnab protection window.addEventListener(‘load’, function () { // make all links have rel=”noopener noreferrer” document.querySelectorAll(‘a[target=”_blank”]’).forEach(link => { link.setAttribute(‘rel’, ‘noopener noreferrer’); }); }); ]]> Podcast: Download MYS371: Telepathy among non-speaking autistic kids? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli unpack the claims from the #1… Continue reading The Telepathy Tapes
Is Mathematics Mostly Chaos or Mostly Order?
Last winter, at a meeting in the Finnish wilderness high above the Arctic Circle, a group of mathematicians gathered to contemplate the fate of a mathematical universe. It was minus 20 degrees Celsius, and while some went cross-country skiing, Juan Aguilera, a set theorist at the Vienna University of Technology, preferred to linger in the… Continue reading Is Mathematics Mostly Chaos or Mostly Order?
Who Counts? Trump Poised To Try To Remove Noncitizens From Census
Following a years-long surge in illegal immigration, the Trump administration is poised to challenge a longstanding but legally fraught practice: counting illegal aliens in the U.S. census. President Trump tried to end the practice during his first term, but President Biden overturned his predecessor’s policy before it was implemented. Now, buoyed by red state attorneys… Continue reading Who Counts? Trump Poised To Try To Remove Noncitizens From Census
Sahara Dust Clouds Are Heading to Florida and Beyond
Sahara Dust Clouds Are Heading to Florida and Beyond Clouds of dust blown off the Saharan Desert into the southeastern U.S. could affect local weather and make sunrises and sunsets particularly vivid By Meghan Bartels edited by Dean Visser Each year, seasonal winds carry tens of millions of tons of Saharan dust across the Atlantic… Continue reading Sahara Dust Clouds Are Heading to Florida and Beyond