WEIRD SCIENCE
A team of scientists has created a strange phase of matter called a time crystal in Google’s Sycamore quantum processor. Google Quantum AI – By Michael Irving 2021 Nov 30 – Time crystals sound like something a video game character would be trying to …
Lance Oditt / Friends of Pando, Author provided – By Richard Elton Walton, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biology, Newcastle University Updated 2021 Nov 24 – In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a …
Only about 1 in 5 computer scientists are women. Rachel Murray/Getty Images for MGA Entertainment – By Allison Master, Assistant Professor of Education, University of Houston and Andrew N. Meltzoff, Professor of Psychology, University of Washington and Sapna Cheryan, Professor of Psychology, University …
Zeva’s one-person eVTOL aircraft: a tail-sitting flying saucer design with some interesting advantages. Zeva Aero View 8 Images – By Loz Blain 2021 Nov 23 – Zeva is deadly serious about bringing this tail-sitting eVTOL flying saucer to market as a one-person air taxi, …
Dozen of motorists report error as company’s CEO, Elon Musk, apologises on Twitter. Elon Musk said Tesla was taking measures to ensure the problem does not happen again. Photograph: John Thys/AFP/Getty Images – Reuters Last modified on 2021 Nov 20 – Hundreds of …
The first Intel 4004 chip. Intel View 12 Images By David Szondy 2021 Nov 19 – This month marks the 50th anniversary of Intel’s 4004 processor, the first commercially available microprocessor built on a single chip. Originally designed for a Japanese desk calculator, …
We live in a universe of extremes. Image courtesy NASA.Gov – Popular Science By Donavyn Coffey – If the sun is hot how is outer space cold ? — Jacoby Brissett (@JBrissett12), 2019 Jul 10 – Why is space so cold if the …
More than 500 people were hospitalized after powerful thunderstorms drove scorpions from their burrows and into residential houses in the city of Aswan. Mohamed Hamdy Boshta holds a scorpion, one of many that he hunts on Egyptian deserts and shores to extract their …
Thousands of the satellites orbiting Earth are small – like this cubical satellite seen here being released from the International Space Station. NASA, CC BY-NC – By Supriya Chakrabarti, Professor of Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell 2021 Sep 17 – – It seems …
Without fungi we don’t have bread, chocolate, cheese, soy sauce, beer or wine. They are also crucial to protecting our climate. ‘Fungi are responsible for almost all our food production, and most of our processed materials. They can also be thanked for many …
