Science & Technology

A barrier to colliding particles called muons has been smashed 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- February 6, 2020
Physicists have now cooled beams of the subatomic particles

By David Aragorn
A New Experiment Hopes to Solve Quantum Mechanics’ Biggest Mystery 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- February 6, 2020
Physicists will try to observe quantum properties of superposition—existing in two states at once—on a larger object than ever before

By David Aragorn
New quasi-particle discovered: Introducing the Pi-ton 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- February 5, 2020
In physics, there are very different types of particles: Elementary particles are the fundamental building blocks of matter. Other particles, such as atoms, are bound states consisting of several smaller constituents. And then there are so-called “quasi-particles”—excitations in a system that consists of many particles, which in many ways behave just like a particle themselves.

By David Aragorn
Humans are still evolving: 3 examples of recent adaptations 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- February 4, 2020
Evolution is an ongoing process, although many don’t realize people are still evolving.

By David Aragorn
Submarine Robot Expedition in Antarctica to Find Out How Fast the Thwaite Glacier Melts Captured For the First Time on Video 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- February 1, 2020
The submarine robot, Icefin, was dropped in a 700-meter deep ice hole through the efforts of the MELT Project scientists assigned in the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.

By David Aragorn
Africans carry surprising amount of Neanderthal DNA 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 31, 2020
Source: Science Magazine For 10 years, geneticists have told the story of how Neanderthals—or at least their DNA sequences—live on in today’s Europeans, Asians, and their descendants. Not so in Africans, the story goes, because modern humans and our extinct cousins interbred only outside of Africa. A new study overturns that notion, revealing an unexpectedly

By David Aragorn
Researchers Develop Robot Fingers That Cool Off By Sweating 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 31, 2020
The work is the first step in creating robots that can operate for extended periods without overheating.

By David Aragorn
Scientists cooled a nanoparticle to the quantum limit 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 31, 2020
The particle’s motion reached the lowest level allowed by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle

By David Aragorn
Researchers Drill Deep Into One of the Most Important Antarctica Glaciers 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 30, 2020
The melting of Thwaites Glacier already accounts for 4% of global sea-level rise.

By David Aragorn
Quantum Mechanics Helps Explain Why Humans Sometimes Make Foolish Decisions 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 30, 2020
Scientists think that quantum physics and human psychology belong hand in hand to explain human behavior.

By David Aragorn