February 10, 2025 4 min read Athena, Next U.S. Commercial Moon Lander, Is Set for Spectacular Lunar Science In partnership with NASA, the Intuitive Machines lander Athena will send a water-seeking drill, a pogo-sticking crater probe and other novel technologies to the moon By Gayoung Lee edited by Lee Billings An artist’s rendering of an… Continue reading Athena, Next U.S. Commercial Moon Lander, Is Set for Spectacular Lunar Science
Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals
The findings emerge in a world enraptured by artificial forms of intelligence, and they could teach us something about how complex circuits in our own brains evolved. Perhaps most importantly, they could help us step “away from the idea that we are the best creatures in the world,” said Niklas Kempynck, a graduate student at… Continue reading Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals
Multiplication, Biden-Style: School Bias Cases Doubled
While limiting strings-attached grants and curbing federal regulation, President Trump’s efforts to dismantle the Department of Education also take aim at a key tool bureaucrats use to oversee schools in all 50 states: civil rights investigations. Celine Almazan, advocate for the disabled: Trump administration changes have left clients “in limbo, or distraught, thinking there will… Continue reading Multiplication, Biden-Style: School Bias Cases Doubled
Where Does Meaning Live in a Sentence? Math Might Tell Us.
Category theory lets you jump from the category of topological spaces to this other category. You can use something called a functor to translate your two topological spaces into vector spaces, for example. If you then find that the dimensions of the vector spaces are different — something that’s much easier to measure — then… Continue reading Where Does Meaning Live in a Sentence? Math Might Tell Us.
Trump’s Team of Realists | RealClearWorld
President Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy is taking shape. Its essence is geographical, and the tools to facilitate it are economic, diplomatic, and military power. It eschews abstractions and sentiment in favor of Bismarckian realism. If Abraham Lincoln led a “team of rivals,” Trump leads a team of realists whose members understand that global… Continue reading Trump’s Team of Realists | RealClearWorld
‘Paraparticles’ Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle
When you swap two paraparticles, these hidden properties change in tandem. As an analogy, imagine that these properties are colors. Start with two paraparticles, one that’s internally red and another that’s internally blue. When they swap places, rather than keeping these colors, they both change in corresponding ways, as prescribed by the mathematics of the… Continue reading ‘Paraparticles’ Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle
Earth’s Mysterious Inner Core Is Changing Shape
February 11, 2025 2 min read Earth’s Mysterious Inner Core Is Changing Shape Earth’s core is transforming, which could affect the length of our 24-hour day, Earth’s magnetic field, and more By Alexandra Witze & Nature magazine Earth’s inner core was long considered to be completely solid, but research has shown that it can be… Continue reading Earth’s Mysterious Inner Core Is Changing Shape
Waste of the Day: Layoffs at “Luxurious” Federal Agency
Topline: The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, one of seven small agencies ordered to reduce its workforce in President Donald Trump’s March 15 executive order, had a payroll of $28.6 million in 2024, according to data obtained by OpenTheBooks. Of the agency’s 200 employees, 164 earned between $100,000 and $204,000. All but 15 employees have… Continue reading Waste of the Day: Layoffs at “Luxurious” Federal Agency
The Mystery of Parapsychology
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The High Cost of Quantum Randomness Is Dropping
Nothing is certain in the quantum realm. A particle, for example, can exist in multiple quantum states simultaneously. The same goes for a quantum bit, or qubit — the basic unit of information used in quantum computing. The act of measurement causes these objects to collapse into a single state, and usually the best you… Continue reading The High Cost of Quantum Randomness Is Dropping