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The Historyscoper's Science and Technology Watch Blog Apr. 2, 2015
The Historyscoper's Science and Technology Watch Blog Apr. 2, 2015
Saturday, April 30, 2022
Can AI Unlock Fusion Energy? The ultimate climate-saving technology may finally be here. In theory fusion energy is the ultimate power source. Simply put in hydrogen and get out copious amounts of energy with only helium as a byproduct. But, in practice, it is far more complicated. The super hot, mega compressed and insanely chaotic conditions inside a fusion reactor have been notoriously difficult to…
QUANTUM MILESTONE Silicon-based quantum devices gain credibility with 99% accuracy A high profile international endeavor reports high-fidelity two-qubit gates based on spin qubits in silicon Classical computers made up of silicon semiconductors process information in bits — denominated by either 0 or 1.
Thursday, April 28, 2022
What happens if the Solar System’s largest comet collides with Earth? The recently discovered Oort cloud comet, Bernardinelli–Bernstein, has the largest known nucleus: 119 km. Here’s what it could do to Earth. Out there, in the far recesses of the Solar System, a great existential threat lies in wait for planet Earth: the…
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
NASA’s New AI Will Terrify Putin Hypersonic missiles designed by AI. Unless you have been living under a rock you will have noticed international relations have not been so peachy recently. Particularly with Russia, as they continue to use brutal and criminal acts in Ukraine, despite universal outcry. One of the most shocking revelations of the war in Ukraine has been Russia’s liberal use of hypersonic missiles…
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Monday, April 25, 2022
Sunday, April 24, 2022
5 Simple Ways to Drop Your Dementia Risk WHILE THERE IS NO CURE FOR ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, there are some lifestyle moves you can make that may lower your risk of developing the disease. We begin with this troubling statistic: Nearly six million individuals in the United States have Alzheimer’s dementia. That’s according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Is There An Earth-Like Planet In Alpha Centauri? Thanks to an upcoming telescope, we may soon find out Despite being ‘only’ four and a bit lightyears away, the Alpha Centauri star system remains a tantalising mystery. In theory, a habitable Earth-like exoplanet could exist around either of the binary stars, but the stars are too bright for our current telescopes to see these other worlds hidden…
Yes, the gold given to baby Jesus was made in a neutron star collision When three wise men gifted baby Jesus with gold, frankincense and myrrh, they had no idea one was made from colliding neutron stars. On a frosty winter’s night more than 2000 years ago, a young expectant mother found herself in a wooden manger as she…
Did Fermilab’s new result blow a hole in the Standard Model? Fermilab’s TeVatron just released the best mass measurement of the W-boson, ever. Here’s what doesn’t add up. In the entire history of science, no theory has been more successful, in terms of predictions matching the results of experiments and observations, than the Standard Model of…
Saturday, April 23, 2022
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Sunday, April 17, 2022
Ask Ethan: Could “heavy light” be the missing dark matter? Our Universe requires dark matter in order to make sense of things, astrophysically. Could massive photons do the trick? When it comes to the Universe, there are some things we can be confident are out there based on what we observe. We know that the Universe was hotter, denser, and…
Saturday, April 16, 2022
Friday, April 15, 2022
Thursday, April 14, 2022
Time dilation is real, and your head ages faster than your feet The idea of “absolute time” was our default for millennia. But time is relative, as gravity and motion both cause time to dilate. There’s no such thing as absolute time. No matter where you are, how fast you’re moving, or how strong the gravitational field is around you…
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
The Cutting Edge Satellite Securing Our Future Eco tech has a major problem, but Fleet Space may have the perfect solution. For decades millions of engineers around the world have scratched their heads as they try to solve climate change and avert the impending disaster. Since then, we have started the electric vehicle revolution, built extensive solar farms and even developed…
Monday, April 11, 2022
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Friday, April 8, 2022
Ask Ethan: Should Alpha Centauri be our first interstellar target? The closest star system to Earth, just over 4 light-years away, has three stars and at least one Earth-sized planet. Is it time to go there? Assuming humanity can survive the next few decades and centuries — and that’s a big assumption, given the threats of…
Thursday, April 7, 2022
The Lack of Disorder Is One of the Greatest Mysteries of the Universe Science provides us with the illusion that it has explained a great deal. By describing the “creation” of the Universe in mathematical terms and models we have pushed the riddles further away from us, while the mysteries of the true origin is really just as unresolved. One can guess and speculate. Some cosmologists suggest that…
Monday, April 4, 2022
Sunday, April 3, 2022
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