It wasn’t your imagination: US experienced warmest March ever
As record temperatures swept through the Midwest and trees bloomed early across the Northeast, lots of talk focused on what an unusually warm start spring was having. The folks at...
New quantum controls use vibrations to control other vibrations
A major triumph in physics involved using photons to produce a quantum state in a mechanical oscillator that was visible to the naked eye. Mechanical oscillations are vibrations of atoms within...
Why you should read the book Before the Lights Go Out
In the very first pages of her book, Before the Lights Go Out, Maggie Koerth-Baker blows my mind. Not in the sense of "Wow, I never knew that!" (although I certainly thought that...
Manned Mars Surface Missions, from 1966
Piloted spaceflight planning typically emphasizes transportation; that is, methods of traveling from Earth to some destination and back again. Other than...
NASA’s 1966 plan for a mission to Mars
Piloted spaceflight planning typically emphasizes transportation; that is, methods of traveling from Earth to some destination and back again. Other than...
Week in science: feeling the chill (and the heat)
The theme of this week's science news seemed to be temperature. We covered how the first organized oceanographic expedition produced data that's still useful today, and how other researchers have...
Week in science: feeling the chill (and the heat)
The theme of this week's science news seemed to be temperature. We covered how the first organized oceanographic expedition produced data that's still useful today, and how other researchers have...
New autism studies find new mutations, many genes behind the disorder
Autism clearly has a genetic component, since if one half of a set of identical twins suffers from the disorder, the other generally does as well. But there are also...
Researchers find a way to keep quantum memory and logic in synch
A quantum computer, like any other computer, requires a way to store and retrieve information. In other words, some sort of memory. But because of the rich quantum entanglement gooey center...
Particle accelerators’ search for nature’s hidden dimensions comes up empty
It sounds like something that should be reported at the Onion, but here I am to tell you that the people who run the CMS detector at the LHC have just...
Particle accelerators’ search for nature’s hidden dimensions comes up empty
It sounds like something that should be reported at the Onion, but here I am to tell you that the people who run the CMS detector at the LHC have just...
50-megapixel digital imaging system uncovers Shakespeare signature
A professor and his students have identified a probable new Shakespeare signature in a 16th century legal text. Using a 50-megapixel multispectral digital imaging system, members of The Lazarus Project have tweaked......
