October 21, 20246 min readWorldschooling Is Catching On. Here’s What You Need to KnowPeople are pulling their kids out of traditional education to learn while they travel. Data on educational success are limited, but there are other reasons to consider...
October 21, 20244 min readMysterious Gamma-Ray Flashes May Be Missing Link for Lightning BoltsObservations from a retrofitted spy plane hint at a connection between powerful gamma-ray flashes and a thunderstorm’s lightningBy Lee Billings Stuart Westmorland/Getty ImagesIt’s said that lightning never...
October 21, 20243 min readHow Your Brain Processes Zero (It’s Not Exactly ‘Nothing’)What we think about when we think about “zilch” is surprisingly complex, neuroscientists findBy Michaela Maya-Mrschtik & Daisy YuhasThe invention of zero made many mathematical calculations possible. Many...
Taylor Swift fans queue outside Murrayfield stadiumJeff J Mitchell/Getty Images I imagine that you may, at some point in your life, have been in a queue that wasn’t run entirely efficiently. Despite allegedly loving to line up and wait for...
Umer (Faraz Ayub) wonders if he is not of this worldLisa Stonehouse/Escape Films Sky PealsMoin HussainA BFI Player subscription streaming exclusive until 21 October, when it will be on Amazon and iTunes In film and TV, aliens have come in all shapes and...
The critically endangered Lehmann’s poison frog is endemic to southwestern Colombia, where negotiators are meeting for the COP16 biodiversity summitMinden Pictures/Alamy The 16th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, CBD COP16 for short, starts in...
A mathematical pattern links the major equations of physicsAndresr/Getty Images A strange pattern running through the equations of physics may reveal something fundamental about the universe or could be a sign that human brains are biased to ignore more complex...
I remember watching the full moon rise one early evening a while back. It was when I still lived in Colorado, and I was standing outside in my yard. I first noticed a glow to the east lighting up the...
October 18, 20244 min readWhat Brilliant Fall Leaf Colors Tell Us about Tree Health and ClimateA tree’s fall palette offers a glimpse at its health and the weather it has experienced in a given yearBy Meghan Bartels Larisa Fedotova/Getty ImagesBefore...
Quantum bits currently require temperatures between approximately -200 degrees Celsius to -270 degrees Celsius to operate properly. Source link...
