Why did our brains shrink? (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOgKwAJdeUc 

Matter arises from light? We finally know the answer to this question! For the first time, experiments have shown that matter can be created from the collision of photons — that is, from light.

https://medium.com/@darkmatterarticles/matter-arises-from-light-we-finally-know-the-answer-to-this-question-84f3d30b0260 

How Not to Read Scientific Papers. Stop wasting your time reading useless papers.

https://medium.com/@parttimeben/how-not-to-read-scientific-papers-3ae5f26b1b7f 

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…

https://medium.com/predict/can-ai-unlock-fusion-energy-d2534d93c712 

NASA Spotted a Large Spherical Object on the Red Planet. Strange new images of Mars suggest that aliens could be building towers on the planet’s surface

https://medium.com/@gatkata82/nasa-spotted-a-large-spherical-object-on-the-red-planet-ac2df7d0c624 

Artificial Gravity: 3 Reasons Why We Can’t Do It. We can’t even recreate the weakest of the fundamental forces…

https://medium.com/intuition/artificial-gravity-3-reasons-why-we-cant-do-it-7ae5c8ad60ce 

11 Nuclear Energy Wins to Give Thanks for This Year. Looking for reasons to be cheerful? There are plenty…

https://medium.com/generation-atomic/11-nuclear-energy-wins-to-give-thanks-for-this-year-902e8b2a02c2 

How To Really Eliminate The Staircase Paradox? You are likely underestimating the mathematical finesse behind this paradox!

https://medium.com/street-science/how-to-really-eliminate-the-staircase-paradox-f71fac974d0d 

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.

https://medium.com/technicity/silicon-based-quantum-devices-gain-credibility-with-99-accuracy-8360c2ae043 

Physicists just measured the heaviest known particle with record-breaking precision

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/physicists-just-measured-the-heaviest-known-particle-with-record-breaking-precision/ar-AAWKxfo 

Fossils of giant marine reptiles found high in the Swiss Alps

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/fossils-of-giant-marine-reptiles-found-high-in-the-swiss-alps/ar-AAWHHQe 

‘Otherworldly' wreckage found on Mars with rover copter

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/otherworldly-wreckage-found-on-mars-with-rover-copter/ar-AAWHBw8 

Ingenuity helicopter captures images of its parachute on Mars

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/ingenuity-helicopter-captures-images-of-its-parachute-on-mars/ar-AAWHD6z 

Time Travel Could Be Possible, but Only if Multiple Histories Exist Too

https://singularityhub.com/2022/04/28/time-travel-could-be-possible-but-only-if-multiple-histories-exist-too/ 

Physicists Developed a Superconductor Circuit Long Thought to Be Impossible

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/physicists-developed-a-superconductor-circuit-long-thought-to-be-impossible/ar-AAWEJzn 

New study provides more evidence that life was brought to Earth via meteorites

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/new-study-provides-more-evidence-that-life-was-brought-to-earth-via-meteorites/vi-AAWGOxM 

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…

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/what-happens-if-the-solar-systems-largest-comet-collides-with-earth-44a3d6450f44 

How Many Billion-Dollar Accelerators Do We Need? An epic project that turned out to be an epic fail. What have we learned…

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/how-many-billion-dollar-accelerators-do-we-need-f6e034ace729 

A conversation about the end of science. Here is a Socratic-style dialogue loosely based on an actual conversation with some of my friends

https://philosophyasawayoflife.medium.com/a-conversation-about-the-end-of-science-761a181c0a08 

Undruggable targets: the major challenge for modern drug discovery. The AI approaches for beating undruggability

https://medium.com/receptor-ai/undruggable-targets-the-major-challenge-for-modern-drug-discovery-52a87ccb94f8 

Why 3x+1 Always Collapses And Your Resistance Is Futile

https://medium.com/@jarrod.fodemski/why-3x-1-always-collapses-and-your-resistance-is-futile-36008b3e3072 

The Quantum Bubble. How two key experiments invalidate quantum mechanics, and a new theory is ushering in the next paradigm of thought.

https://medium.com/discourse/the-quantum-bubble-8e9c3d9d1d92 

When Geometry and Chaos Intersect Dennis Sullivan — 2022 Abel Prize recipient

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/when-geometry-and-chaos-intersect-6b32edb49b4d

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…

https://medium.com/predict/nasas-new-ai-will-terrify-putin-d0220621a067 

Why has nobody built a rotating space craft to simulate gravity?

https://medium.com/@ehabich/why-has-nobody-built-a-rotating-space-craft-to-simulate-gravity-916410f94d73 

Scaling language understanding (NLU)

https://john-at-pat.medium.com/scaling-language-understanding-nlu-3030c22c2de7 

Debate: Are There More Doors or Wheels in the World? (Solved) The question that is rocking the internet right now

https://medium.com/illumination/debate-are-there-more-doors-or-wheels-in-the-world-solved-1d095e9c1c18 

Scientists Found an Ultra-Powerful Space Laser That’s Older Than Earth

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-found-an-ultra-powerful-space-laser-that-s-older-than-earth/ar-AAWCZux 

Aliens Created Our Universe in a Lab, Scientist Suggests. If true, we started out as a “baby universe.” Cute.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a39797483/aliens-created-our-universe-in-a-lab/ 

What’s Happening in Your Brain Moments Before Death? A man’s sudden death during a routine brain scan has given researchers a glimpse of the dying human brain.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/whats-happening-in-your-brain-moments-before-death 

How is net zero carbon emissions actually possible while maintaining current living standards? - TL Winslow, Pansophist master of STEM and world history

https://www.quora.com/How-is-net-zero-carbon-emissions-actually-possible-while-maintaining-current-living-standards/answer/TL-Winslow 

This Is The World’s First Image of Light as Both a Particle And a Wave

https://medium.com/@gatkata82/this-is-the-worlds-first-image-of-light-as-both-a-particle-and-a-wave-685d06e6d875 

A Physicist’s View: The Thermodynamics of Machine Learning. Complex systems are ubiquitous in nature, and physicists have found great success using thermodynamics to study these system. Machine learning can be very complex, so can we use thermodynamics to understand it?

https://towardsdatascience.com/a-physicists-view-of-machine-learning-the-thermodynamics-of-machine-learning-6a3ab00e46f1 

Why Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life.

https://philosophygeek.medium.com/why-g%C3%B6del-escher-bach-is-the-most-influential-book-in-my-life-49d785a4e428 

Pando — The largest and oldest organism in the world is slowly being eaten!

https://medium.com/@darkmatterarticles/pando-the-largest-and-oldest-organism-in-the-world-is-slowly-being-eaten-8a23469d11ff 

The Genesis of Kerr Solution A Complete Description of Spinning Black Holes — The Most Formidable Objects in the Universe

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/the-genesis-of-kerr-solution-dd778e6be598 

Quantum theory may be incompatible with black holes

https://medium.com/the-infinite-universe/quantum-theory-may-be-incompatible-with-black-holes-fe663b27a044 

Bekenstein-Hawking entropy - Scholarpedia

The 5 Lingering Mysteries of Theoretical Physics Will these be solved in our lifetime?

https://charliestephen6.medium.com/the-5-lingering-mysteries-of-theoretical-physics-c1de1e651d21 

5 Physics Equations Carved Beautifully On Monuments

https://piggsboson.medium.com/5-physics-equations-carved-beautifully-on-monuments-ad4b38664aa0 

QD-OLED TV: everything you need to know about the game-changing new TV tech used by Samsung, Sony and Dell

https://www.whathifi.com/us/features/qd-oled-tv-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-game-changing-new-tv-tech 

Samsung Takes the Market by Surprise with Its QD-OLED TVs. The Koreans go from stealth mode to general availability in a few weeks — so what’s the good news and the bad news?

https://medium.com/geekculture/samsung-takes-the-market-by-surprise-with-its-qd-oled-tvs-c781f005a6e4 

Could the Universe be Constantly Changing the Laws of Physics? Some scientists claim the universe keeps molding the laws of physics all by itself

https://charliestephen6.medium.com/could-the-universe-be-constantly-changing-the-laws-of-physics-73327a2af599 

Are there any Fundamental Laws of Nature? Symmetries run the game

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/are-there-any-fundamental-laws-of-nature-db9a7b7abade 

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.

https://medium.com/beingwell/3-simple-ways-to-drop-your-dementia-risk-14188d6c4ac9 

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…

https://medium.com/predict/is-there-an-earth-like-planet-in-alpha-centauri-93e7f989dfa8 

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…

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/yes-the-gold-given-to-baby-jesus-was-made-in-a-neutron-star-collision-9523635f7acf 

Why only mathematical universes have life And how AI is teaching us what math means

https://medium.com/the-infinite-universe/ais-failure-to-invent-math-explains-where-numbers-come-from-and-why-we-misunderstand-them-a83bb287f79 

How to Teach Math and Science. Communication is a skill that everyone should take seriously, especially scientists and science communicators.

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/how-to-talk-about-math-and-science-7c853659ed80 

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…

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/did-fermilabs-new-result-blow-a-hole-in-the-standard-model-81e3b210579a 

The Anarchy in Science. Is there even such a thing as the scientific method?

https://medium.com/the-commoner/the-anarchy-in-science-545e5bb0aed 

The Big Misconception About Electricity - video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIhgxav9LY 

What's happening in your brain moments before death.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/whats-happening-in-your-brain-moments-before-death 

Your brain is not for thinking

https://osho-international.medium.com/your-brain-is-not-for-thinking-ee7873406138 

We May Have Solved the Mystery Why Human Life Is Only About 80 Years. Have you wondered what causes the average human to die at 80?

https://ronke-babajide.medium.com/we-may-have-solved-the-mystery-why-human-life-is-only-about-80-years-78c221bc0e3b 

Oleic Acid Might Activate Brain Cell Renewal. Oleic acid can bind to a receptor that stimulates brain cell formation (in mice)

https://medium.com/predict/oleic-acid-might-activate-brain-cell-renewal-95510c2185af 

The Beautiful Connection Between Conservation Laws and Symmetries. Can energy be lost or created in our Universe?

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/the-beautiful-connection-between-conservation-laws-and-symmetries-3ba06e757862 

Scientists Say There’s an ‘Anti-Universe’ Running Backward in Time

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-say-there-s-an-anti-universe-running-backward-in-time/ar-AAWudyz 

Alien civilizations can draw energy from black holes through Dyson spheres.

https://medium.com/@darkenergyarticles/alien-civilizations-can-draw-energy-from-black-holes-through-dyson-spheres-ca8d2f827fe8 

SURPRISE! Science Ready to Reintroduce Extinct Species to Earth

https://redrightpatriot.com/surprise-science-ready-to-reintroduce-extinct-species-to-earth/ 

The (Im-)Possibility of Artificial Gravity The future of space exploration depends on it.

https://medium.com/the-universe-is-a-melon/the-im-possibility-of-artificial-gravity-98a387f7a1ad 

What If Evolution Isn’t Only Driven By Random Selection? A small malaria mutation is making some rethink a major scientific theory

https://medium.com/discourse/what-if-evolution-isnt-only-driven-by-random-selection-cf0beddd28c3 

It Took Me 10 Years to Understand Entropy, Here is What I Learned. From the Big bang to the Heat death of the universe

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/it-took-me-10-years-to-understand-entropy-here-is-what-i-learned-b2d51e8ccd4c 

US Navy shoots down drone with electric-powered laser in historic first

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/us-navy-brings-down-drone-with-electric-powered-laser-in-historic-first/ar-AAWsSIL 

Intrinsic Nature: Philosopher Philip Goff on What Physics Leaves Out

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/intrinsic-nature-philosopher-philip-goff-on-what-physics-leaves-out-dd977cb335f1 

Hubble Confirms Largest Comet Nucleus Ever Seen — A Staggering 500 Trillion Tons Headed This Way.

https://medium.com/@rex1970/hubble-confirms-largest-comet-nucleus-ever-seen-a-staggering-500-trillion-tons-headed-this-way-c72a885163a 

The Physics of Wormholes. A Brief Description of the Fascinating Properties of These Space-Time Tunnels

https://medium.com/swlh/the-physics-of-wormholes-654facefd2ea 

Woman Gets A Rare Hand Transplant, But Then A Strange Twist Stuns Doctors

https://curiositywell.com/s/woman-gets-hand

Jim Carrey’s Right: Depression Can Wake Us Up, Science Now Confirms. After a decade of research, scientists are stunned to find that depression opens the door to spiritual awakening.

https://medium.com/@LearningDrew/jim-carreys-been-right-all-along-science-now-says-depression-knocks-at-the-door-to-wake-us-up-eedcf4731e10 

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…

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-could-heavy-light-be-the-missing-dark-matter-f8beefa96cc3 

Energy is NOT Conserved

https://medium.com/@thisscience1/energy-is-not-conserved-ec387c86d548 

Time Might Not Exist, Physicists Say; Causation Is the Basic Feature of Our Universe

https://singularityhub.com/2022/04/15/time-might-not-exist-physicists-say-causation-is-the-basic-feature-of-our-universe/ 

Harvard scientists discover 1st interstellar meteor to collide with Earth, US military confirms

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/harvard-scientists-discover-1st-interstellar-meteor-to-collide-with-earth-us-military-confirms/ar-AAWcXbd 

The Origin of Mass Extinction How Mother Earth can be destroyed — an energy perspective on why mass extinction occurs.

https://medium.com/@marmotian/the-origin-of-mass-extinction-599fc08b29e0 

Webb’s Most Sensitive Instrument Reaches Operating Temperature

https://rjbeamer.medium.com/webbs-most-sensitive-instrument-reaches-operating-temperature-aa06895478aa 

The Dirac Sea Does Not Have a Speed Limit

https://john-99387.medium.com/the-dirac-sea-does-not-have-a-speed-limit-44454457cd 

Yesterday Marked the Death of Art as an Industry. Starting yesterday, AI is now definitively better than human artists in almost every sense of the word. Here’s why human art & design is about to crumble.

https://medium.com/geekculture/yesterday-marked-the-death-of-art-as-an-industry-1472b9c49c63 

The physics and metaphysics of mass

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/the-physics-and-metaphysics-of-mass-72216dcb13c4 

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…

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/time-dilation-is-real-and-your-head-ages-faster-than-your-feet-2ae57ba325f2 

Astronomers Find Rapidly Growing Black Hole From Early Universe

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/astronomers-find-rapidly-growing-black-hole-from-early-universe/ar-AAWedSK 

A Huge Beam of Antimatter Has Been Captured

https://medium.com/predict/a-huge-beam-of-antimatter-has-been-captured-56f84a642e75 

3 Massive Breakthroughs in Materials Science that are Sure to be Game Changers. The science of materials is fast becoming a dark horse in solving world problems

https://charliestephen6.medium.com/3-massive-breakthroughs-in-materials-science-that-are-sure-to-be-game-changers-2ab9d42db06d 

Do Scientists Determine the Results in Advance?

https://michaellaitman.medium.com/do-scientists-determine-the-results-in-advance-ca65a8ee2fcf 

Elon Musk: People Don’t Realize What’s Coming “Earth won’t exist in 12 years”

https://medium.com/yardcouch-com/elon-musk-people-dont-realize-what-s-coming-b5a172672bd8 

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…

https://medium.com/predict/the-cutting-edge-satellite-securing-our-future-9ecaf6058286 

How the Extinction of Ice Age Mammals May Have Forced Us to Invent Civilization

https://singularityhub.com/2021/12/29/how-the-extinction-of-ice-age-mammals-may-have-forced-us-to-invent-civilization/ 

Scientists Are Using CRISPR Gene Editing to Try to Create Hypoallergenic Cats

https://singularityhub.com/2022/04/08/scientists-are-using-crispr-gene-editing-to-try-to-create-hypoallergenic-cats/ 

Mojo Vision’s New Contact Lens Brings Seamless Augmented Reality a Step Closer

https://singularityhub.com/2022/04/11/mojo-visions-new-contact-lens-brings-seamless-augmented-reality-a-step-closer/ 

The Hafele-Keating Experiment Disproves Time Dilation, but Proves… An extreme disaster of incompetence.

https://andylehti.medium.com/the-hafele-keating-experiment-1cff3d3a11f9 

What is the ith root of i?

https://medium.com/@veervishalji/what-is-the-ith-root-of-i-4a34e461624a 

A Mathematical Proof for Flat Earth. You have been lied to. Here’s the proof.

https://medium.com/@thisscience1/a-mathematical-proof-for-flat-earth-18f5be91741d 

Scientists Baffled As Particle Experiment Threatens 'Fundamental' Theory

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-baffled-as-particle-experiment-threatens-fundamental-theory/ar-AAW0FkR?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=902f703c04ca4c9292cacee6ad9a84b9 

Living forever according to physics

https://medium.com/the-infinite-universe/living-forever-according-to-physics-b12a34f7126e 

James Webb Space Telescope Might Be Able To Detect Other Civilizations by Their Air Pollution

https://medium.com/@gatkata82/james-webb-space-telescope-might-be-able-to-detect-other-civilizations-by-their-air-pollution-d7e513fa0351 

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…

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-should-alpha-centauri-be-our-first-interstellar-target-95262451aac7 

Astronomers Find Milky Way’s First Rouge Black Hole. The dark object weighs in at seven times the mass of the sun, making it one of the best candidates for a free-floating black hole of stellar mass to date

https://writerharry.medium.com/astronomers-find-milky-ways-first-rouge-black-hole-d09c1144f390 

C.S. Peirce on Abduction: The Logic of Scientific Hypotheses The logician, mathematician and philosopher C.S. Peirce on abductions as “explanatory hypotheses”.

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/c-s-peirce-on-abduction-the-logic-of-scientific-hypotheses-c29bac68cfab 

The Famous Rain Problem and the Importance of Mathematical Reasoning Ability

https://ali.medium.com/the-famous-rain-problem-and-the-importance-of-mathematical-reasoning-ability-40f0bde13cc4 

Is Aging a Disease or a Natural Process? Mystery, stigma, and dreams of immortality fuel a debate that just won’t die

https://elemental.medium.com/is-aging-a-disease-or-a-natural-process-7022d610d95e 

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…

https://medium.com/predict/the-lack-of-disorder-is-the-greatest-mystery-of-the-universe-9946c21087ad 

This device allows people to breathe underwater. Now We Can Breathe Underwater Using Triton!

https://medium.com/@TechiWiki/this-device-allows-people-to-breathe-underwater-73f47ed37b86 

Saturn’s rings are disappearing — they may soon be gone!

https://vstories.medium.com/saturns-rings-are-disappearing-they-may-soon-be-gone-c940504e5bba 

Do Carbon Ages Refute a Biblical Timeline?

https://www.icr.org/article/do-carbon-ages-refute-biblical-timeline/ 

Two key tech execs quit Truth Social after troubled app launch

https://www.aol.com/finance/exclusive-two-key-tech-execs-101822176-141059568.html 

The Pythagoras Cup — The World’s Oldest Prank Still Practiced Today. The Pythagoras cup spills your drink if you become too greedy

https://medium.com/short-history/pythagoras-cup-f698e992593a 

What is the strongest material on Earth? Diamonds, which for millennia were the hardest known material, only come in at #7 on the current list. Can you guess which material is #1?

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/what-is-the-strongest-material-on-earth-46206715a8ae 

The Toughest and the Easiest Math Problems Asked in the IMO “There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.”

https://piggsboson.medium.com/the-hardest-and-the-easiest-math-problems-ever-asked-in-imo-cf2a2fd45196