In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She calculated that collisions involving three different types of subatomic particles would all produce the same wreckage. It was like laying a grid over maps of London, Tokyo and New York and seeing that all three cities… Continue reading Physicists Reveal a Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time
The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2001, Resurrection, Jupiter)
Podcast: Download MYS331: Over the course of years and in dozens of cities across the world, strange tiles with bizarre messages began showing up affixed to streets. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the Toynbee Tiles, the bizarre ideas they convey, and who is behind them. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow… Continue reading The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2001, Resurrection, Jupiter)
Rare Whale Beached in New Zealand Offers Glimpse of Little-Known Species
One of Earth’s Most Elusive Whales Washes up on New Zealand Beach Scientists hope the incredibly rare beaching of a spade-toothed whale will help them learn more about this persistently elusive species By Kate Graham-Shaw Jim Fyfe and Tūmai Cassidy walk alongside a rare, male spade-toothed whale, being moved by Trevor King. When the 16-foot-long… Continue reading Rare Whale Beached in New Zealand Offers Glimpse of Little-Known Species
The IRA’s Unconstitutional Drug Price Controls
The Biden-Harris administration recently announced the negotiated prices for the first 10 drugs of the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) drug price negotiation program (DPNP). That same day, Vice President Harris stood alongside President Biden for their first joint appearance since Biden stepped down as the Democratic presidential nominee. At the campaign event, Harris touted the… Continue reading The IRA’s Unconstitutional Drug Price Controls
Can Space-Time Be Saved? | Quanta Magazine
Most of today’s leading theoretical physicists have a shared perspective about what the next revolution in physics will look like. They think reconciling Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity with quantum mechanics will require transcending the notion of space-time. Einstein’s theory attributes the force of gravity to curves in the space-time fabric, but beneath this… Continue reading Can Space-Time Be Saved? | Quanta Magazine
Kamala Harris Is Keeping Voters in the Dark
“We are not going back,” Vice President Kamala Harris has promised. But where are we heading? And who is being left behind? Concerned Americans asking these questions can find answers at this year’s Climate Week NYC, a gathering of liberal activists and elites who claim that we are heading away from a “fossil-fuel society” and… Continue reading Kamala Harris Is Keeping Voters in the Dark
What a Kamala Harris Presidency Would Mean for Science
What a Kamala Harris Presidency Would Mean for Science As the daughter of a cancer researcher, Kamala Harris would bring a lifelong familiarity with science to the presidency, experts say By Max Kozlov, Mariana Lenharo, Jeff Tollefson & Nature magazine US Vice President Kamala Harris arrives on the South Lawn of the White House in… Continue reading What a Kamala Harris Presidency Would Mean for Science
Climate-Friendly Concrete Paves Path to Green Construction
CLIMATEWIRE | The modern world is built on concrete. It holds together driveways, bridges and the buildings in which more than 70 percent of the world’s population makes their home. But the material is also a climate killer. Its production is responsible for 8 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions — more than the entirety… Continue reading Climate-Friendly Concrete Paves Path to Green Construction
500-Million-Year-Old ‘Alien Fish Taco’ Was among First Creatures with Jaws
500-Million-Year-Old ‘Alien Fish Taco’ Was among First Creatures with Jaws A bizarre fossil of a Cambrian creature that looked like an “alien fish taco” reveals how a single group with jaws came to account for around 90 percent of all animal species on Earth By Ashley Balzer Vigil A life reconstruction of Odaraia, which may… Continue reading 500-Million-Year-Old ‘Alien Fish Taco’ Was among First Creatures with Jaws
‘Groups’ Underpin Modern Math. Here’s How They Work.
Mathematics started with numbers — clear, concrete, intuitive. Over the last two centuries, however, it has become a far more abstract enterprise. One of the first major steps down this road was taken in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It involved a field called group theory, and it changed math — theoretical and… Continue reading ‘Groups’ Underpin Modern Math. Here’s How They Work.