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Welcome to Jupiter!

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

How did planets form? Where did they get the ingredients for life, like carbon and nitrogen, that we hold so dear on Earth? These are some of the big questions NASA's probe Juno will address as it peeks for the first time through Jupiter's thick clouds. It may sound surprising, but we know practically nothing about what goes on inside the biggest non-sun thing in the solar system. In the early morning of July 5 (European time), after almost five years of space travel, Juno successfully...

Stretching quantum cats could make for better computers

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

A team of physicists at Yale demonstrated that the inherent quantum weirdness can be harnessed to make quantum computers, and that cats would help do it---sort of. While classical computers (the kind you use to read this article) encode information in bits that can be either 0 or 1, quantum computers use quantum bits (or qubits) that can be both 0 and 1 at the same time, in a so-called "quantum superposition". In this, they resemble the famous Schrödinger's cat, both dead and alive until we...

"Happy little accident" opens new avenues for amazing future batteries

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Who wouldn't want a slim phone that stays charged for days and holds its capacity for years? Beyond consumer electronics, from electric cars to solar and wind power plants, many other technologies are being held back by bulky and short-lived batteries. Nanotechnology showed glimpses of a solution: nanowire batteries. However, a few major hurdles are still in the way. For one, these futuristic devices are very fragile and unreliable. But, thanks to a recent study by Mya Le Thai---a doctoral...

Predicting the tipping point of complex systems

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

While preparing soup, have you ever wondered at what point does a pot of boiling water start evaporating?

Now, we know from basic physics that water can be of two states- liquid or gas.

But is it possible to determine the exact interaction and energy between the billions of water molecules that converts liquid to vapor?

Century-old theoretical physics dictates that we can reduce these billions of interactions and parameters to a very few observables. In this case basically just one...

Networking: Nature or Nurture?

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Interview with expert science communicator Alaina Levine who is the author of 'Networking for Nerds'.
Could you tell us a little bit about your background and connection to science? I've always had four parallel paths in my life; one was in science, one was in business, one was in the performing arts and one was in written communications. I love doing all four of those things. But what I really loved was science and so I came to the University of Arizona (UoA). I ended up getting two degrees;...

Eating away at efforts to alleviate climate change

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

A couple of the greatest challenges we face are climate change and how it impacts the way we feed the world's growing population.

More and more drastic climate change related events are occurring, like new diseases and natural disasters, which result from an increase in greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. The agricultural sector contributes to about 22-24% of these emissions.

With the population set to rise to 9 billion people by 2040, the demand for food on a global scale is...

Even Chimps Trust Friends

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Trust plays an important part in any friendship. We trust that our friends will be there for us in a time of need, even if it means sacrificing something themselves. This sometimes seems self-destructive, especially if we place our trust within the wrong people but also seems as something that makes us human.

However, a recent study on chimpanzees has shown that trust is not a uniquely human characteristic; showing that chimpanzees place special trust in their friends compared to their...

A 300-year old mystery solved!

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Professor Andrew Wiles (pictured above), faculty at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford has won the most prestigious award in Mathematics- Abel prize, in recognition for his solution to a 300-year old mathematical problem- famously known as Fermat's Last Theorem!

This particular problem, in a branch of mathematics called Number Theory, has baffled many mathematicians over the past three centuries.

So who is Fermat and what exactly is this problem with an elusive solution?

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A bright window into our past, present and future

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Look up at a clear night sky and you won't miss it, shining bright like nothing else---the Moon. Its romantic, unique looks have fascinated humans for centuries: we've studied it for as long as we've been able to, we paced our months to its cycle, we've sent probes to orbit it and land on its surface, and we've even visited in person. Yet, there is still so much we don't know about our attractive next-door space neighbor. Ground truths After the lunar exploration golden age of the 60s, the...

When the sea comes marching in

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Take the year 2100- although many of us in our 20s and 30s today may not live that long, yet our own children and grandchildren will be the ones to usher in the 22nd century.

Now, can you imagine a day when our future generations will not be able to walk the streets of New York, Mumbai, Barcelona or Shanghai - just because these coastal cities and many more towns would be submerged under water? Sounds scary and apocalyptic, right? And that could very well be an unfortunate reality, given the...

Climate change may not alter Southeast Asian Monsoons

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Climate change is a looming threat of the 21st century, and seems to be the talk of the town. One way that the human impact on the globe is being felt is through the weather- drought or flooding is become more common, as well as "freaky" weather events. Take for instance, the disastrous rains that battered the driest southern city of India- Chennai, late last year. Chennai hadn't experienced such unprecedented rainfall and ensuing devastation in over a century! One of the most influential...

Gravity waves a 'Hello! I am here!'

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have detected gravitational waves. We did it!" This is the historical announcement with which Prof. David Reitze, executive director of LIGO (Laser Interferometry Gravitational-wave Observatory, with locations in Hanford, WA and Livingston, LA) kicked off last Thursday's press conference. The discovery had been rumored about for months, so it wasn't entirely surprising. Moreover, it was confidently predicted in Einstein's General Relativity. According to this theory,...

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