Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Tuesday, January 16, 2024 This New Nuclear Battery Could Soon Go on the Market A Chinese company has announced they’re planning to mass-produce tiny nuclear batteries that can last up to 50 years, possibly beating both a British … | Continue reading
Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Monday, January 15, 2024 Our Universe Will Probably Not Rip Apart, Phew! The Dark Energy Survey has surveyed dark energy and found that our universe is unlikely to rip into pieces. I think that’s good news for the cosmos. Let’s h … | Continue reading
Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Sunday, January 14, 2024 Can Quantum Fluctuations Create a New Universe? Quantum fluctuations happen everywhere, all the time, and in principle they can become arbitrarily large. So if we wait long enough at the end of the univer … | Continue reading
Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Saturday, January 13, 2024 New Computer Will Mimic Human Brain -- And I'm Kinda Scared A lab in Australia is building a new supercomputer that will for the first time both physically resemble a human brain, and perform as many op … | Continue reading
Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Friday, January 12, 2024 A Runaway Greenhouse Effect is Very Unlikely on Earth When I was just about to log off for the holiday break, I saw these headlines popping up, saying that it doesn’t take much to turn Earth into Venus wi … | Continue reading
Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Thursday, January 11, 2024 It looks like AI will kill Quantum Computing Yann LeCun, the AI chief of Meta, has a surprisingly sane attitude to quantum computing. This deserves celebration and also investigation because he’s making … | Continue reading
Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Wednesday, January 10, 2024 Space debris could start conducting electricity, disturb electric field We’ve heard that space debris is bad and the problem’s getting worse, but here’s a new thing to worry about. It could interfere w … | Continue reading
Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Tuesday, January 09, 2024 This new semiconductor could revolutionize computing Researchers at the Georgia Institute for Technology have found a new semiconductor that’s a really good candidate for making computers faster and smal … | Continue reading
Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Monday, January 08, 2024 Solar arrays better than trees for climate, study says What is better, planting trees or covering the same area of land with solar panels? A group of geoscientists from Israel just looked at this, and the … | Continue reading
Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Sunday, January 07, 2024 Will the world end? A physicist's reply How do we know that the laws of nature will continue to do what they have been doing so far? We don't. It's called the "Problem of Induction" and means that ultimat … | Continue reading
Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Sunday, January 07, 2024 They predicted a Nobel prize-winning discovery. And no one cared. Imagine you make a prediction for a discovery that wins the Nobel Prize. Your prediction turns out to be correct, and no one cares. This i … | Continue reading
Pages Home Talk To A Scientist Comment Rules About Saturday, December 30, 2023 The true cost of nuclear power Out of the many bad arguments against nuclear power, there are two good arguments: It's too expensive and the power plants take too long to build. But are they true? And … | Continue reading