The Tasmanian Giant Crab is the king of crabs
Add the Tasmanian Giant Crab (Pseudocarcinus gigas) to one of the animals you’ll want to see in person one day. Moreover, the crab’s…
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Google achieves “quantum supremacy” with the 54-qubit Sycamore processor
Keep reading: Google achieves “quantum supremacy” with the 54-qubit Sycamore processorGoogle confirmed that it has officially achieved achieved quantum supremacy with the 54-qubit Sycamore processor. Writes Engineering Director Hartmut Neven on Google’s blog: Today, the scientific journal Nature has published the results of Google’s efforts to build a quantum computer that can perform a task no classical computer can; this is known in the field…
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How 16-year-old Greta Thunberg inspired a climate strike movement
Keep reading: How 16-year-old Greta Thunberg inspired a climate strike movement“No one is too small to make a difference,” says 16-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Ever since the Swede took to the Swedish Parliament last year to call for stronger climate action against global warming, she’s inspired similar strikes across the globe. On Friday, thousands of students skipped school and adults skipped work in cities…
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Connecting human brains to computers
Keep reading: Connecting human brains to computers“You could just think your query and download the relevant knowledge directly in your mind.” Forget Ritalin. Forget Google and Evernote acting as our second brains holding all the information we can’t. And instead, prepare for brain implants where the mind melds with machines. We don’t even have to type, click, or touch anything. We…
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Scientist Madeline Lancaster grows ‘mini-brains’
Keep reading: Scientist Madeline Lancaster grows ‘mini-brains’Neurological biologist Madeline Lancaster develops cerebral organoids or mini-brains, which she describes as “three-dimensional neural tissues generated from human stem cells which allow us to model human brain development.” In other words, organoids can model the architecture of a human embryonic brain. According to the Financial Times who interviewed the scientist, each organoid is about…
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The spherical nature of the Earth
Keep reading: The spherical nature of the EarthThe world is round, and it has been for some time despite the rise of the flat earth movement. Take a look at some of the armillary spheres below, starting with the Chinese diagram from 1092. Even back then, they had could rationalize that the Earth adopted a round shape. The curvy nature of the…
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Tesla’s American experience
Keep reading: Tesla’s American experienceHe left Thomas Edison’s lab. He relinquished his Alternating Current (AC) royalties to Westinghouse to prevent the company from going bankrupt. Motivated by wonder and awe, he exploited his imagination to foresee the wireless networking and cell phones we have today. “Why can’t we photograph thought?” he once asked. Tesla was an artist working with…
