It’s great! “The 18-year-old high school student used Usain Bolt and a pick-up truck in order to explain the critical physics concept.” | learn more
Inside this article you’ll learn how carbon dating works. “1859’s Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.” | learn more
Prometheus Fuels Founder and CEO: “But as often happens with breakthroughs of this magnitude, our process has … raised a lot of questions: How is it possible that your e-fuels are so much cheaper than everyone else’s? And if you […]
“I’m a civil engineer. Landfills get a bad rap because they seem horrible, but modern landfill technology is really pretty amazing. … And anything that goes into the landfill does not get into the ocean.” | learn more
“Dr. Tyson explains where we might find aliens, why “dark matter” is a misleading term, and why you can blame physics for your favorite team’s loss.“ | learn more
“The U.S. needs more moonshot projects like SpaceX—both literally and figuratively. The federal government can play an important role as a buyer-of-first-resort in industries that offer public goods.” | learn more
“Journalists are obsessed with the question of why Americans aren’t having more babies…. But it’s the other two factors—death and immigration—that are overwhelmingly responsible for the collapse in U.S. population growth.” Please give us more immigrants! | learn more
“It is very counter-intuitive to see how “bad” ideas are in fact extremely valuable: not only do they highlight why the good ideas are better, but they also sometimes show that the “good” ideas are in fact wrong. Arguing that […]
“This annual research report seeks to highlight our most provocative research conclusions for the coming year.” Multi-omics, autonomous ride-hail and logistics, and orbital aerospace all sound pretty interesting to me. | learn more
“For the first time, experiments demonstrate the possibility of sharing secrets with perfect privacy — even when the devices used to share them cannot be trusted.” | learn more