Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Have you heard that an asteroid might—just maybe—smack into Earth sometime in the next few years? The rumors are true, though perhaps not as frightening as you might think. The fact is that this asteroid, called 2024 YR4, is both literally and figuratively a moving… Continue reading Newly Discovered Asteroid 2024 YR4 Is at Risk of Hitting Earth. What Do We Do?
Protecting Medicaid Coverage Is Crucial for Fighting Opioid Crisis
One of the most important – and difficult – roles of government is to craft a budget rooted in reality, in which spending is aligned with revenue. When I took office as governor of New Jersey, the state faced an $11 billion deficit on a $29 billion dollar budget. I’ll be the first to admit… Continue reading Protecting Medicaid Coverage Is Crucial for Fighting Opioid Crisis
Penguins Help to Map Antarctica’s Growing Mercury Threat
February 12, 2025 2 min read Penguins Help to Map Antarctica’s Growing Mercury Threat Molted penguin feathers record mercury infiltrating Antarctica’s food web By Gayoung Lee edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Gentoo penguins have a wide geographic range, making them good targets for follow-up research. David Merron Photography/Getty Images When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica… Continue reading Penguins Help to Map Antarctica’s Growing Mercury Threat
One Nebraska | RealClearPublicAffairs
This month, Nebraska lawmakers will debate whether to pass legislation that makes Nebraska’s electoral system “winner-take-all.” In last November’s election, four of the state’s five electoral votes went to Donald Trump, with one from Nebraska’s Second Congressional District (the “blue dot”) going to Kamala Harris. “Blue dot” proponents hope the practice of splitting electoral votes… Continue reading One Nebraska | RealClearPublicAffairs
The Amityville Horror
The Amityville Horror < !- 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 MYS358: What really happened at the infamous house on Ocean Avenue? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli unfold… Continue reading The Amityville Horror
Quantum Speedup Found for Huge Class of Hard Problems
For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve — akin to identifying a peak to climb — and then they must develop a strategy to solve it. Classical and quantum researchers compete using different strategies, with a healthy rivalry between the two. Quantum researchers report… Continue reading Quantum Speedup Found for Huge Class of Hard Problems
Embracing Human Intelligence in the Digital Age
In an era defined by constant disruption and the complexities of a “permacrisis,” organizations are grappling with a fundamental challenge: how best to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) in ways that enhance efficiency without diminishing the uniquely human attributes that fuel innovation and organizational performance. AI’s central role in operational strategies necessitates a deliberate approach that… Continue reading Embracing Human Intelligence in the Digital Age
Return-to-Office Demands Don’t Benefit Employees or Businesses
Back to your cubicles, you impudent pups. The boss wants you in traffic and swilling stale office coffee again. It’s good for business. Except that isn’t true, which poses a puzzle over the “return-to-office” preoccupations of some corporate chieftains. In January President Donald Trump joined the Fortune 500 fad for demanding workers resume commuting. Trump… Continue reading Return-to-Office Demands Don’t Benefit Employees or Businesses
How to Get Ahead of H5N1
The United States is failing to act decisively against the growing H5N1 threat, with human cases already emerging from unknown origins and evidence of widespread animal transmission. Without immediate nationwide livestock testing and isolation, expanded wastewater surveillance, and rapid vaccine distribution to at-risk populations, the virus risks mutating into a form capable of sustained human… Continue reading How to Get Ahead of H5N1
The Most Energetic Neutrino Ever Seen Makes a Mediterranean Splash
February 12, 2025 5 min read The Most Energetic Neutrino Ever Seen Makes a Mediterranean Splash A “ghost particle” discovered by a detector in the Mediterranean carried 30 times more energy than any neutrino observed to date By Meghan Bartels edited by Lee Billings The highest-energy cosmic neutrino detected to date was observed by KM3NeT,… Continue reading The Most Energetic Neutrino Ever Seen Makes a Mediterranean Splash