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The climate is doomed if we continue to be fixated by economic growth – Physics World
Johan Hansson argues that it will never be possible to meet our climate targets if countries continue their obsession with growing the economy
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Renowned Economist Paul Krugman: U.S. Food Prices Have Not Doubled and Are Not Soaring
In the realm of economic discussions, few topics resonate as personally with the average American as the price of groceries.
Paul Krugman is an...
A ‘Lobby’ Where a Molecule Mob Tells Genes What to Do | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionThe discovery during the Human Genome Project in the early 2000s that we humans have only about 20,000 protein-coding genes — about as many...
New US Government ‘Safety Consortium’ Seeks to ‘Police’ AI
The U.S. government announced a new consortium to support the development and deployment of what it calls “safe and trustworthy” generative AI as authorities...
Watch CCC Sponsored Sessions at AAAS – February 15th – 17th » CCC Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to...
Physicists take the temperature of second sound – Physics World
A new technique for monitoring “second sound” – a bizarre type of heat wave that occurs in superfluids – has been developed by physicists...
IQT The Hague Update: John Prisco, President and CEO of Safe Quantum Inc., is a 2024 Speaker – Inside Quantum Technology
By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry posted 12 Feb 2024
In April 2024, John Prisco, a seasoned executive with a 30-year...
To See Black Holes in Detail, She Uses ‘Echoes’ Like a Bat | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionUnlike many astronomers, Erin Kara didn’t grow up star-struck. “I don’t have that story of being that little kid staring up at the stars...
Scientists Find Optimal Balance of Data Storage and Time | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionAbout 70 years ago, an engineer at IBM named Hans Peter Luhn quietly changed the course of computer science. Luhn already held several patents,...
Inhalable nanosensors could increase access to lung cancer screening – Physics World
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Maze Proof Establishes a ‘Backbone’ for Statistical Mechanics | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionImagine that a grid of hexagons, honeycomb-like, stretches before you. Some hexagons are empty; others are filled by a 6-foot tall column of solid...
Single-sided MR sensor provides tissue analysis at the patient bedside – Physics World
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