A Million-Year-Old Mammoth May Hold The Key...
First Nation Shell Middens And True Oysters
The Analogy: A Powerful Instrument For Physics...
Up-to-date With The Big Bang, Mass, And Protons
Tracking Particles With Neuromorphic Computing
At the IV Workshop in Valencia a student from my group, Emanuele Coradin, presented the results of a novel algorithm for the identification of charged particles in a silicon tracker. The novelty is due to the use of neuromorphic computing, which works by encoding detector hits in the time of arrival ...
By Tommaso Dorigo
Flying Drones With Particle Detectors
Nowadays we study the Universe using a number of probes and techniques. Over the course of the past 100 years we moved from barely using optical telescopes, that give us access to the flux of visible photons from galaxies, supernovae, and other objects of interest, to exploiting photons of any ...
By Tommaso Dorigo
The Nobel Prize And The Role Of AI In Scientific Advancement
The 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, who many have called “the godfather of AI”. The award seems apt for the time we are in. In the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’s press release, they explained their decision to award the prize to the pair ...
By Mark Pierce
Some Notes On The Utility Function Of Fundamental Science Experiments
Earlier this year I mentioned here that I would be writing an article on how the utility function of experiments in fundamental science could be specified, as an enabling step toward the formalization of a co-design optimization problem. Now, as the deadline for submission approaches and the clock ...
By Tommaso Dorigo
American CO2 Is Below War War II Levels But We Keep Emissions High In Poor Countries
In politics, one way to make your belief in alternative energy seem feasible is to make its competitors expensive. President Obama did that when he began to subsidize the domestic solar energy industry at unprecedented levels.(1) He brought in Dr. Stephen Chu, who had advocated $9-a-gallon gasoline ...
By Hank Campbell
Mercury Emissions Are In Decline Yet Doomsday Prophets Claim They Are Up
If you read environmental groups, we are closer to our doom than ever. Bees are nearly extinct, cell phones are causing cancer, and hydroelectric power is devastating the land.None of those are true yet they all have claims found in journals and in media. So it has been with mercury emissions, ...
By Hank Campbell
Simulation Predicts 50% Of Recurring El Niño Events Could Be Extreme In 25 Years
The recurring El Niño phenomenon was in full force from mid-2023 to mid-2024 and as predicted it brought higher temperatures. In this case, it brought the highest temperatures since accurate records have been kept, for 12 straight months.A team of climate scientists created a numerical simulation ...
By News Staff
Lithium-Ion Batteries Need Help To Enter The 21st Century, Manganese May Be It
With a 4th generation nuclear plant finally getting built in the U.S., 30 years after the federal government blocked all advanced energy research, there are so few old environmentalists still in power that alternative energy wishful thinking can make way for science. They aren't going without a ...
By Hank Campbell
Non-Europeans Opt Out Of Genomic Databases, Leading To Lack Of Diversity
When Senator Elizabeth Warren had her claims of native ancestry debunked by DNA testing, it was a warning shot to everyone who identifies that way - don't take a test. Most native Americans had long said that anyway, they knew how biology worked better Washington DC staffers. After five generations ...
By News Staff
Smarter Soybeans Mean Affordable Food In Poorer Regions
It is easy for wealthy countries to spend $135 billion on an organic food process that uses higher quantities of older, more toxic pesticides at greater environmental strain, because it is a niche luxury item.In countries that are poor, which often means  outside natural breadbasket climates ...
By News Staff
Bacterial Genes Can Be Genetic Shapeshifters
Prokaryotes, single-cell organisms such as bacteria, undergo inversions which cause a physical flip of a segment of DNA and change an organism’s genetic identity the way you might change a wig. They can occur within a single gene, in defiance of the more common 'one gene codes for one protein' ...
By News Staff
Wuhan Seafood Market: Evidence Of COVID-19 Origins Revealed
When COVID-19 broke out, it was a US election year and that meant a lot of common sense gave way to politics. Democrats charged that then-President Trump was putting lives at risk by telling FDA to fast-track a vaccine, after insisting that closing airports to China was racist and xenophobic because ...
By Hank Campbell
Marijuana For ADHD?
Cannabis and THC, its main psychoactive compound, have been endorsed by people suffering from anxiety, sleep problems, epilepsy, and cancer pain.What is missing from such claims is a plausible biological hypothesis for how it can be everything to everyone, which means scientifically it is still ...
By Hank Campbell
How QbD Can Drive Innovation And Quality In Pharmaceuticals
Quality by Design (QbD) is  a decade-long approach that was first introduced by quality expert Joseph M. Juran. Juran proposed a “Juran Trilogy”, of which quality and innovation were two of the pillars necessary to ensure breakthroughs in developing new products, services and processes ...
By Mark Pierce
What Next For Messenger RNA (mRNA)? Maybe Inhalable Vaccines
No one likes getting a needle but most want a vaccine. A new paper shows progress for messenger RNA (mRNA), that can be sprayed and inhaled thanks to improved lipid-polymer nanoparticle technology for holding mRNA that is stable when nebulized and successfully delivers aerosols, liquid droplets ...
By News Staff
Toward A Single Dose Smallpox And Mpox Vaccine With No Side Effects
Attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his US followers over the last 25 years have staunchly opposed vaccines, latching on to any claim that they cause autism or should be available for lawsuits even if they harm no one.They really won't like a new experimental vaccine for Smallpox and Monkeypox ...
By News Staff
Rutgers Study - Forcing DEI Programs On People Increases Hostility
If you have done nothing wrong, do you want to be treated like a criminal? That was always the failure of Social Justice Social Science efforts like the Implicit Bias test; you're a racist, the test will show you how racist you are. You may not hate anyone so it would be perfectly understandable ...
By Hank Campbell
Minnesota Trial Lawyers Want To Ban Neonics - Here Is Why That Is A Mistake
Minnesota is having a challenging year, so challenging they are approaching California as the wackiest state, according to other states. They have a chronic anti-Semitism problem, including a member of Congress who may soon have to register as a foreign national, a Governor so completely associated ...
By Hank Campbell
The Toxic Masculinity Of Disney Movies
Once upon a time, stories were just stories. They were fantasies that took people to a new world. In the 21st century, cultural pundits insisted that books, films, video games and television shape our personalities. It began in the 1980s when Democrats wanted to censor lyrics in music, and ...
By Hank Campbell
Morte Alla Francia Italia Anela - The Secret History Of Organized Crime In 1343
Italy as we know it today had not been such since the days of the Roman Empire. You can see that last remnant today in the existence of The Vatican smack in the middle of Rome but at one point they held a substantial amount of territory. Like Americans, Italians are inherently rebellious. ...
By Hank Campbell
AI And The Poetry Problem
Artificial Intelligence is artificial, but it is not intelligence. That could change some day but it isn't happening soon, Large Language Models are fine for a few things but limited in most. That is why Ben Affleck can talk in a hurry and assure fellow film creatives that their jobs are safe. ...
By Hank Campbell
And The USERN Prize Winners For 2024 Are....
USERN (Universal Scientific Education and Research Network, https://usern.org) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that supports interdisciplinary science across borders. Founded in 2015 by a distinguished Iranian Immunologist, Prof. Nima Rezaei, USERN has grown to acquire a membership ...
By Tommaso Dorigo
We Stopped RFK Jr When Obama Wanted Him, We Stopped Him With Trump, Let's Do It Again
In 2008, fresh off a decisive victory over Democratic establishment candidate Senator Hillary Clinton in the primary and one over highly-regarded Senator John McCain in the general election, President-elect Obama began to engage in worrisome behavior.His transition team, those who set the tone ...
By Hank Campbell
Ignore Critics, Gen Z, We Weren't Smarter In 1984
It's commonplace for older generations to criticize the young. In my early career, an older fellow told me he wouldn't hire anyone who didn't know how to use a slide rule. Another only a decade older than me said he only wanted to work with people who had built their own crystal radio or some equivalent ...
By Hank Campbell
The recent video, "How LISA Will Listen to the Symphony of the Universe," provides a compelling...  more »
This came up on 2nd November 2024 (give or take a day), a broadcaster objecting to a carbon capture...  more »
Sheer beauty — a beautiful Euhoplites ammonite from Folkstone, UK. These lovelies have a pleasing...  more »
March is here, and with it begins a season of intense travel for me - something which for some...  more »
By Anonymous
...  more »