Science & Technology

Philosophers and neuroscientists join forces to see whether science can solve the mystery of free will 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 23, 2019
A new research program on free will teams up neuroscientists and philosophers

By David Aragorn
China clones ‘Sherlock Holmes’ police dog to cut training times: state media 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 22, 2019
A researcher interacts with Kunxun, a dog cloned from a police dog, in Beijing, China February 22, 2019.

By David Aragorn
Scientists ‘reverse time’ with quantum computer in breakthrough study 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 19, 2019
‘We have artificially created a state that evolves in a direction opposite to that of the thermodynamic arrow of time,’ researcher says

By David Aragorn
Toyota unveils manned lunar rover concept 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 15, 2019
The automotive giant has designed a new pressurized vehicle that astronauts can drive around on the moon.

By David Aragorn
Ultraprecise atomic clocks put Einstein’s special relativity to the test 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 14, 2019
An experiment tested a foundational principle of physics known as Lorentz symmetry

By David Aragorn
More evidence of sound waves carrying mass 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 14, 2019
A trio of researchers at Columbia University has found more evidence showing that sound waves carry mass. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, Angelo Esposito, Rafael Krichevsky and Alberto Nicolis describe using effective field theory techniques to confirm the results found by a team last year attempting to measure mass carried by sound waves.

By David Aragorn
Scientists ‘Wake Up’ Ancient Woolly Mammoth Cells in High-Tech Experiment 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 13, 2019
Scientists in Japan have “awakened” 28,000-year-old cells from a woolly mammoth that lived on our planet years ago, and their observations could provide a better understanding of extinct animals’ lives.

By David Aragorn
Scientists have chilled tiny electronics to a record low temperature 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 12, 2019
For the first time, nanoelectronics have been cooled to below a thousandth of a kelvin

By David Aragorn
Gummy-like robots that could help prevent disease 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 9, 2019
Human tissues experience a variety of mechanical stimuli that can affect their ability to carry out their physiological functions, such as protecting organs from injury. The controlled application of such stimuli to living tissues in vivo and in vitro has now proven instrumental to studying the conditions that lead to disease.

By David Aragorn
Physicists Use Seven-Qubit Quantum Computer to Simulate Scrambling inside Black Holes 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 8, 2019
A team of physicists from the Joint Quantum Institute, the University of Maryland, the University of California Berkeley and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics has implemented a test for quantum scrambling, a chaotic shuffling of the information stored among a collection of quantum particles. The team’s experiment, carried out on a group of seven ions, demonstrated a new way to distinguish between scrambling and true information loss.

By David Aragorn