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How Much Energy Does It Take To Think?

2 months ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

Studies of neural metabolism reveal our brain’s effort to keep us alive and the evolutionary constraints that sculpted our most complex organ. ...

Britain Sees Sunniest Spring on Record

2 months ago

from Yale E360 in science

This spring was the warmest and sunniest on record in the U.K., a symptom of a rapidly warming climate, weather officials say. Read more on E360 →

An Empty Product of Nonempty Sets

2 months ago

from Chris Grossack's Blog in science

A few days ago I saw a cute question on mse asking about a particularly non-intuitive failing of the axiom of choice. I remember when I was an...

The beauty of concrete

2 months ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

Why are buildings today austere, while buildings of the past were ornate and elaborately ornamented?

Why are Smokestacks So Tall?

2 months ago

from Blog - Practical Engineering in science

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] “The big black stacks of the Illium Works of the Federal Apparatus Corporation...

AI Therapists

2 months ago

from NeuroLogica Blog in science

In the movie Blade Runner 2049 (an excellent film I highly recommend), Ryan Gosling’s character, K, has an AI “wife”, Joi, played by Ana de Armas. K...

What does Innovaccer actually do? A look under the hood | Out-Of-Pocket

2 months ago

from Out-of-Pocket Blog in science

A conversation about EHRs, who their customers actually are, and building apps

Cambodian Forest Defenders at Risk for Exposing Illegal Logging

2 months ago

from Yale E360 in science

The lush forests that have long sustained Cambodia’s Indigenous people have steadily fallen to illicit logging. Now, community members face...

The Core of Fermat’s Last Theorem Just Got Superpowered

2 months ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

By extending the scope of the key insight behind Fermat’s Last Theorem, four mathematicians have made great strides toward building a “grand unified...

The world of tomorrow

2 months ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

When the future arrived, it felt… ordinary. What happened to the glamour of tomorrow?

Telepathy Tapes Promotes Pseudoscience

2 months ago

from NeuroLogica Blog in science

I was away on vacation the last week, hence no posts, but am now back to my usual schedule. In fact, I hope to be a little more consistent starting...

Two of My Science-Fiction Stories Published in May

2 months ago

from Andrew Fraknoi – Astronomy Lectures – Astronomy Education Resources in science

View this email in your browser A Change of Pace from Astronomy News As you may know, I have been writing science-fiction stories based on good...

Pushing back on US science cuts: Now is a critical time

2 months ago

from nanoscale views in science

Every week has brought more news about actions that, either as a collateral effect or a deliberate goal, will deeply damage science and engineering...

The Data Reveals Top Patent Portfolios

2 months ago

from IEEE Spectrum in science

Eight years is a long time in the world of patents. When we last published what we then called the Patent Power Scorecard, in 2017, it was a different...

How Can AI Researchers Save Energy? By Going Backward.

2 months ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

Reversible programs run backward as easily as they run forward, saving energy in theory. After decades of research, they may soon power AI. ...

The End Kidney Deaths Act

2 months ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

Congress should start compensating compassion

In California, Hummingbird Beaks Have Been Transformed by Feeders

2 months ago

from Yale E360 in science

The profusion of hummingbird feeders in California homes has not only allowed some hummingbirds to expand their range, but has also altered the shape...

Generative AI will probably make blogs better

2 months ago

from pcloadletter in science

Generative AI will probably make blogs better. Have you ever searched for something on Google and found the first one, two, or three blog posts to be...

Quick survey - machine shops and maker spaces

2 months ago

from nanoscale views in science

Recent events are very dire for research at US universities, and I will write further about those, but first a quick unrelated survey for those at...

Will We Ever Prove String Theory?

2 months ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

Promise and controversy continues to surround string theory as a potential unified theory of everything. In the latest episode of The Joy of Why,...

Computers of the future

2 months ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

How to process information without waste

To Cope With Extreme Heat, Clownfish Shrink

2 months ago

from Yale E360 in science

During a severe heat wave in 2023, scientists scuba diving off the coast of Papua New Guinea captured clownfish to measure their bodies. Between...

OOP’s 2025 Healthcare AI Hackathon Projects | Out-Of-Pocket

2 months ago

from Out-of-Pocket Blog in science

Copilots for parents, Chaining Agents, Talking to Your Genome, and more.

The Laser Revolution Part II: Ground, Sea and Grid

2 months ago

from ToughSF in science

The revolution continues! Warfare on the ground and sea will be heavily affected by megawatt-class lasers in the next two decades or so. And, as...

Announcing Think Linear Algebra

2 months ago

from Probably Overthinking It in science

I’ve been thinking about Think Linear Algebra for more than a decade, and recently I started working on it in earnest. If you want to get a sense of...

How Paradoxical Questions and Simple Wonder Lead to Great Science

2 months ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a philosophy he calls...

Why we stopped building subways cheaply

2 months ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

We used to dig up roads to put trains underneath

Warming Linked to Rising Cancer Rates Among Women in the Middle East

2 months ago

from Yale E360 in science

New research finds a link between increasingly extreme heat in the Middle East and rising rates of cancer in women. Read more on E360 →

I know I am but what are you? Mind and Matter in Quantum Mechanics

2 months ago

from Quantum Frontiers in science

Nowadays it is best to exercise caution when bringing the words “quantum” and “consciousness” anywhere near each other, lest you be suspected of...

Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill

2 months ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists will need to go to the ends of...

The bad science behind expensive nuclear

2 months ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

How an arcane model makes nuclear power expensive and why it's time might be up

The ‘Green’ Aviation Fuel That Would Increase Carbon Emissions

2 months ago

from Yale E360 in science

The U.S. agriculture lobby has long promoted ethanol for cars. If President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” becomes law, the industry would be given tax...

The most steampunk qubit

2 months ago

from Quantum Frontiers in science

I never imagined that an artist would update me about quantum-computing research. Last year, steampunk artist Bruce Rosenbaum forwarded me a...

Animals as chemical factories

2 months ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

The price of purple

32 Bits That Changed Microprocessor Design

2 months ago

from IEEE Spectrum in science

In the late 1970s, a time when 8-bit processors were state of the art and CMOS was the underdog of semiconductor technology, engineers at AT&T’s Bell...

In Test, A.I. Weather Model Fails to Predict Freak Storm

2 months ago

from Yale E360 in science

Artificial intelligence is powering weather forecasts that are generally more accurate than conventional forecasts and are faster and cheaper to...

Graduate Student Solves Classic Problem About the Limits of Addition

2 months ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

A new proof illuminates the hidden patterns that emerge when addition becomes impossible. The post Graduate Student Solves Classic Problem...

Penguin Droppings May Be Seeding Clouds, Study Finds

2 months ago

from Yale E360 in science

Penguin droppings may play a role in the formation of clouds over Antarctica, new research finds. Read more on E360 →

My very busy week

2 months ago

from Probably Overthinking It in science

I’m not sure who scheduled ODSC and PyConUS during the same week, but I am unhappy with their decisions. Last Tuesday I presented a talk and...

NASA Ames Research Center Archives

2 months ago

from Beautiful Public Data in science

In the heart of Silicon Valley, NASA Ames Research Center has the world's largest wind tunnel, and a rich history of space and aeronautics innovation...

How badly has NSF funding already been effectively cut?

2 months ago

from nanoscale views in science

This NY Times feature lets you see how each piece of NSF's funding has been reduced this year relative to the normalized average spanning in the last...

Preserving Food

2 months ago

from NeuroLogica Blog in science

About 30-40% of the produce we grow ends up wasted. This is a massive inefficiency in the food system. It occurs at every level, from the farm to the...

One simple deregulation that would save thousands of lives

2 months ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

What we’ve been reading: urbanism, medicine, science, tech, AI, housing, energy, economics, culture, work and more ...

Penguin Droppings May Be Seeding Clouds, Study Finds

2 months ago

from Yale E360 in science

Penguin droppings may play a role in the formation of clouds over Antarctica, new research finds. Read more on E360 →

For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time

2 months ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famous questions in computer science. The...

NIMBYism and how to resolve it

2 months ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

A diagnosis and a solution.

As Bird Flu Spreads, Vaccine Shows Promise for Protecting Cattle

2 months ago

from Yale E360 in science

Since bird flu was first discovered in U.S. cattle last year, the virus has spread to more than 1,000 herds across the country. A new vaccine for...