September 4, 20245 min readBlack Hole Detectors Fulfill Moore’s LawA famous prediction that microchips improve exponentially over time can be applicable in unrelated developments, such as the technology used to discover colliding black holesBy Imre Bartos & Szabolcs MárkaAn illustration...
September 4, 20244 min readHow Testosterone Changes the Immune System in Trans MenA small study of transgender men taking testosterone revealed changes in immune pathways involved in responding to viruses and inflammationBy Tanya LewisA recent study found that trans men...
After any problem with a rocket launch or mission, experts echo the same refrain: space is hard. As progress in the space industry accelerates, that mantra is becoming more relevant, not less, but that is because we are facing the...
Ryan Wills; adboestock/Getty images As one of the original architects of quantum theory, perhaps our most successful scientific idea, you would think that Niels Bohr would have been interested in the nature of reality. The subjects of his studies were...
Health workers attend to an mpox patient at a treatment centre in Munigi, the Democratic Republic of the CongoAssociated Press/Alamy An mRNA vaccine for mpox developed by the biotech company Moderna has shown promise in monkeys, raising hopes that it...
More than half of uncollected plastic garbage is burnedTim Gainey/Alamy Around 1.5 billion people around the world do not have access to garbage collection services, and how they dispose of their plastic waste has become a serious environmental problem. Most...
A network of neurons in the brain seems to be larger in people with depression, which could change how we think about the condition's causes Source link...
An artist’s rendering of a futuristic aircraft with morphable wingsAFRL / NASA An alloy of titanium and nickel is as strong as steel but stretches like a rubbery polymer. With some clever engineering, it may eventually lead to technologies like...
September 4, 20245 min readThe Olympics Breaking Fiasco Undermined Serious Hip-Hop Artists and ScholarsThe “Raygun” Olympics fiasco points to how hip-hop scholarship is at risk of being colonized and undermined in academiaBy A.D. CarsonB-Girl Raygun of Team Australia competes during...
The predicted path of asteroid CAQTDL2 over the PhilippinesCatalina Sky Survey/ESA Astronomers have just discovered that an asteroid is about to strike Earth at thousands of kilometres per hour, impacting just east of the Philippines and most likely in the...
