Girish ArabaleStephen Hawking Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No BeginningQuanta Magazine - Natalie Wolchover A recent challenge to Stephen Hawking’s biggest idea — about how the universe might have come from nothing — has cosmologists choosing sides. In 1981, …
Girish ArabaleEnceladus Confirmed: Enceladus Has A Global OceanPopular ScienceEnceladus is not the block of ice that scientists once thought it was. The Saturnian moon spouts giant plumes of water vapor from its southern pole, and gravity data indicate it likely harbors a liquid
Girish ArabaleThe Future Giant Floating Solar Farms Could Extract CO2 From Seawater, Producing Methanol FuelForbes - Scott SnowdenMillions of floating islands, clustered together, that convert carbon dioxide to methanol fuel could help reduce the amount of green house gases in the atmosphere, according to researchers from Norway
Girish ArabaleThe Brain Alzheimer's disease: Researchers test vaccine they hope could protect against diseaseCBS News Albuquerque, N.M. -- Researchers at University of New Mexico researchers are working on a vaccine they hope could prevent Alzheimer's disease, …
Girish ArabaleThe Future How to build something that lasts 10,000 yearsBBC Future - Alexander RoseAlexander Rose and a team of engineers at The Long Now Foundation are building a clock in the Texan desert that will last for 10,000 years. He explains what he's learnt about designing for extreme longevity.
Girish ArabaleScience Mystery of why arteries harden may have been solved, say scientistsThe Guardian - Nicola DavisThe mysterious mechanism behind the hardening of arteries may have been solved, researchers have revealed, in a study that also suggests the first potential preventive drug for the condition linked to
Girish ArabaleScience Huge mystery blob found under the moon's far sideNational Geographic - Maya Wei-HaasThe massive find promises to help scientists better understand how all rocky bodies—including our own planet—came to be. Researchers have discovered something massive lurking underneath the far side of
Girish ArabaleScience Decoding the Mathematical Secrets of Plants’ Stunning Leaf Patternssmithsonianmag.com - Maddie Burakoff To the untrained eye, plants may appear to grow rather impulsively, popping out leaves at random to create one big green jumble. Take a closer look, …
Girish ArabaleScience What’s the Magic Behind Graphene’s ‘Magic’ Angle?Quanta Magazine - David H. Freedman A new theoretical model may help explain the shocking onset of superconductivity in stacked, twisted carbon sheets. The blockbuster discovery last …
Girish ArabaleMathematics Why the Proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem Doesn’t Need to Be EnhancedQuanta Magazine - Michael Harris Decades after the landmark proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem, ideas abound for how to make it even more reliable. But such efforts reflect a deep …
Girish ArabaleScience Solar cell defect mystery solved after decades of global effortphys.org - Ben Robinson A team of scientists at the University of Manchester has solved a key flaw in solar panels after 40 years of research around the world. Solar panels …
Girish ArabaleScience Physicists 'teleport' logic operation between separated ionsphys.org - National Institute of Standards and Technology Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have teleported a computer circuit instruction known as a quantum logic …
Girish ArabaleNeutrons What holds together the protons and neutrons in an atom’s nucleus?sciencefocus.com - Robert Matthews All protons are positively charged, and as a result repel each other. So the fact that atoms even exist points to a force able to overcome this …
Girish ArabaleExoplanets As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the PatternQuanta Magazine - Rebecca Boyle Astronomers are puzzling over a paucity of planets in the galaxy measuring between 1.5 and two times Earth's size. After the sun formed, the dust and …
Girish ArabaleComputer Science Computer Scientists Expand the Frontier of Verifiable KnowledgeQuanta Magazine - Kevin Hartnett The universe of problems that a computer can check has grown. The researchers’ secret ingredient? Quantum entanglement. “The verifier can send the …
Girish ArabalePlay buttonNuclear Fusion New Data From the Sun May Lead to Advances in Nuclear FusionExtremeTech - Adam Dachis On Earth, we deal with simple matters like liquids, gasses, and solids. Our Sun, on the other hand, is a giant ball of unstable fluid known as …
Girish ArabaleEarth Could We Move the Entire Planet Earth to a New Orbit?space.com - Matteo Ceriotti In the Chinese science fiction film The Wandering Earth, recently released on Netflix, humanity attempts to change the Earth's orbit using enormous …
Girish ArabaleClimate Change Climate change visualized: How Earth's temperature has changed since 1970Axios - Andrew Freedman 2018 was Earth's 4th-warmest year on record, coming in behind 2016, the planet's warmest recorded year, as well as 2015 and 2017, according to …
Girish ArabaleScience Comet inspires chemistry for making breathable oxygen on Marsphys.org - Emily Velasco Science fiction stories are chock full of terraforming schemes and oxygen generators for a very good reason—we humans need molecular oxygen (O2) to …
Girish ArabaleGeometry Scientists Map the Geometry of a Single Electron for the First Time - VICEVICE - Becky FerreiraThe new research could be useful for the development of spin-based quantum computers. Scientists have created the first geometric map of a single electron, according to a study published Wednesday in Physical
Girish ArabaleGeek Extraterrestrial Organic Matter Found in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Volcanic RockGizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum Geologists in France and Italy have spotted what appear to be organic molecules from outer space in 3.3-billion-year-old rocks in South Africa, …
Girish ArabaleTechnology This engineered wood radiates heat into space, potentially slashing cooling costssciencemag.org - Robert F. Service Households in the U.S. Southwest spend about $400 per year to cool their homes, about twice the national average. Now, a new type of wood that …
Girish ArabaleScience What the MTHFR Gene Means for VaccinesThe Atlantic - Sarah ZhangNaturopaths have long been obsessed with a gene called MTHFR. Now vaccine skeptics are testing for it too. David Reif, now a biologist at NC State, realized his old paper had taken on a dangerous second
Girish ArabaleScience Where (Some of) Earth’s Gold Came Fromscientificamerican.com - Imre Bartos, Szabolcs Márka The first detection of a neutron-star collision took 60 years after Margaret Burbidge and colleagues realized that the heaviest elements in the …
Girish Arabale How Geometry, Data and Neighbors Predict Your Favorite MoviesQuanta Magazine - Patrick Honner A little high school geometry can help you understand the basic math behind movie recommendation engines. Adrienne is a Marvel movie fanatic: Her …
Girish ArabaleScience New Paper Confirms Near-Room-Temperature Superconductivity in Wild, Hydrogen-Rich MaterialGizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum A team of physicists has published peer-reviewed results documenting near-room-temperature superconductivity in the hydrogen-rich compound lanthanum …
Girish ArabaleScience Computerized Model Reveals Details Of How Human Cells DivideNPR - Richard HarrisHow do we grow from a single fertilized egg into a fully grown person with trillions of cells? Our cells divide, of course! And it's no mean feat. Each time a cell divides, it must duplicate our 23 pairs
Girish ArabaleTechnology Strange waves rippled around Earth. Now we may know why.National Geographic - Maya Wei-HaasAn “exceptional phenomenon” near the tiny islands of Mayotte may help explain a low-frequency rumble that swept around the world last year. On May 10, 2018, the geologic beasts of the tiny island of Mayotte
Girish ArabaleScience Moondust Could Cloud Our Lunar AmbitionsWIRED - Ceridwen Dovey In the public imagination, the American astronauts who landed on the moon five decades ago were square-jawed superhumans, not the types to worry …
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