Quantum Mechanics The strange link between the human mind and quantum physicsBBC News - By Philip Ball"I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem." The American physicist Richard Feynman said this about the notorious puzzles paradoxes
Exoplanets NASA Provides Rare Glimpse of Rocky Exoplanet’s Strange SurfaceGeek - By Genevieve Scarano NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has provided us with mesmerizing views of galaxies and stars and now, it is giving us a rare look at another …
Constellations Why do different cultures see such similar meanings in the stars?Quartz - Simon CropperAlmost every person throughout the existence of humankind has looked up at the night sky and seen more than just a random scattering of light. Constellations of stars have helped us shape our own ongoing
Archaeology Scientists Are Discovering Long-Lost Rules for Ancient Board GamesVICECameron Browne doesn’t see games the way you and I do. “I [deconstruct] them into their mechanisms,” he said. “I have quite a mathematical approach to games.” This perspective comes with the territory
Earth Scientists found stardust in the most unlikely of placesbgr.com - Mike Wehner Earth has managed to avoid any truly catastrophic impacts from objects in space for quite some time, but that doesn’t mean material from the cosmos …
Science Mathematical framework turns any sheet of material into any shape using kirigami cutsphys.org - Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a mathematical framework that can turn …
Science Century-old salmon-smeared notebooks reveal past bounty of fisheriessciencemag.org - Lesley Evans Ogden One day in June 1919, workers in a busy Canadian cannery in Port Essington rushed to clean, cook, and can the bright red flesh of a huge number of …
Photography Gorgeous In-Camera Double Exposures by Luciano Meirellesthephoblographer.com - Joy Celine Asto If you’ve never tried double exposures in-camera before, the beautiful work of Luciano Meirelles using a Canon DSLR should inspire you. Some of you …
Hubble Stunning Hubble photo catches an aging star's giant ring of space gasMashable - Adam RosenbergJust like people, stars get old. Also like people, aging stars release a lot of gas. This newly captured image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows us NGC 2022, a planetary nebula in the Orion constellation.
Recycling 'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish?The Guardian - Oliver Franklin-WallisWestminster council sent 82% of all household waste – including that put in recycling bins – for incineration in 2017/18 One of the UK’s largest waste companies, attempted to ship used nappies abroad consignments
The Brain What does running do to your brain?The GuardianNeuroscientists have studied treadmill runners, ultramarathon athletes – and a number of lab animals – to investigate the effects of running on grey matter It may seem obvious – as you push on through
Chang’e4 China's Chang'e-4 Rover Keeps Snapping Stunning Photos of the Moon's Far Sidespace.com - Meghan Bartels China's Chang'e-4 mission has completed eight full days of science work on the far side of the moon — and in between the experiments, the lander and …
Voyager 2 NASA's Voyagers Grow Weaker Each YearThe Atlantic - Marina KorenNASA is rationing watts to keep its oldest mission going. Beyond Earth and its bubble of satellites; past Mars, where rovers explore; past Jupiter and its circling orbiter, two spacecraft are gliding interstellar
Play buttonRFID Why This Software Engineer Implanted a Tesla Valet Key Into Her ArmPopular Mechanics - By Courtney LinderWith keyless ignition, it's easy to accidentally forget your key fob. It's a scenario that has apparently stymied Amie Dansby, a software engineer from Dallas, in the past. So she came up with a radical
Environment These toilets use worms to compost your poop, and they are our futurePopular Science - Ula ChrobakAs park visitation grows, more areas are seeking alternatives to the usual pit toilets and catholes. When I visited Squamish, British Columbia for a rock climbing trip, I did not know I was also visiting
U.S. Treasury The Yield Curve Has Inverted And You Should Sell Your StocksForbes - Jim CollinsThe yield curve has inverted and you should sell your stocks. That is a simple, declarative statement, and yet one that I have not read anywhere this morning. Having awakened to the news that the yield
Brexit There are reasons to be cheerful. These are the dying days of a rancid old orderThe Guardian - Will HuttonThe case for the EU will be as an agent for Europe-wide sustainability Don’t despair. We may be living through an attempted rightwing revolution, but its foundations are rotten. There may be a counter-revolution,
Planetary Habitability NASA drops insane map of 4,000 planets outside our solar systemCNET - Eric Mack In just a few decades, we've gone from knowing of no planets beyond the solar system to thousands. Here's how it happened.
Culture The Book of Job in a New LightThe Atlantic - James ParkerIn a new translation of the Book of Job, the famously repentant hero gives God a piece of his mind. So God says to Satan, “You there, what have you been up to?” And Satan says, “Oh, you know, just hanging
Telescopes Mysterious, Ancient Radio Signals Keep Pelting Earth. Astronomers Designed an AI to Hunt Them Down.space.com - Rafi Letzter Sudden shrieks of radio waves from deep space keep slamming into radio telescopes on Earth, spattering those instruments' detectors with confusing …
Hubble Space Telescope Jupiter just got slammed by something so big we saw it from EarthCNET - Eric Mack It's bright, it's white and fortunately it's very far away from here.
Science Tentacled microbe could be missing link between simple cells and complex lifesciencemag.org - Elizabeth Pennisi Patience proved the key ingredient to what researchers are saying may be an important discovery about how complex life evolved. After 12 years of …
Science We’re Eating This Planet to DeathWIRED - Matt Simon The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a dire report Thursday arguing that humanity can’t truly fight climate change without …
Play buttonTardigrades Tardigrades Have Landed on the Moon. Here's What Their Survival Could Mean for Humanity.Popular Mechanics - By William Herkewitz and Daisy HernandezTardigrades are one of the most fascinating creatures on Earth—and now, the moon, too. The mysterious microscopic critters have landed on the lunar surface in what sounds like the beginning of a sci-fi
Costa Rica Costa Rica Powered by Nearly 100% Renewable Energyecowatch.com - Jordan Davidson The May numbers are a crucial milestone since nearly 75 percent of the nation's renewable energy comes from hydropower produced in rivers and Costa …
Science New finds for Mars rover, seven years after landingphys.org - Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA's Curiosity rover has come a long way since touching down on Mars seven years ago. It has traveled a total of 13 miles (21 kilometers) and …
Geek A Global Water Emergency Is Right Around the Corner—Unless We Stop ItGizmodo - Brian Kahn When Chennai, India’s main reservoir disappeared earlier this summer, the world was rightfully shocked. A city of more than 4.6 million people had …
Science Life on the Moon: toughest animal on Earth may have survived Israeli space crashThe Telegraph - By Sarah KnaptonThe toughest animals on Earth may be alive on the Moon after surviving an Israeli spacecraft crash earlier this year, scientists suspect. A payload of several thousand hardy tardigrades were on board Beresheet
Science Secret of the ‘immortal’ hydra’s regenerating ability uncoveredsciencefocus.com - Sara Rigby Who wants to live forever? A tiny freshwater creature called the hydra can, and scientists at the University of California have revealed the source …
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