I like hearing about new and interesting ideas within science – they help us to explain our world better… (And now, I step on my soapbox…) HOWEVER, I do think some ideas are just plain hooey, because they are less science and more intellectual rationalization for why we can’t explain things at the moment… Take
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A quick note on one of my favorite new technologies – quantum computers. Quantum computers are coming into reality, and here’s a story about the world’s first programmable one… Quantum computers can do a number of things exponentially faster than regular computers, such as searching through unsorted databases and factoring integers (which is useful for
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On Monday, Europe’s Large Hadron Collider set a record by smashing protons together at energies never achieved before. This energy, 1.18 trillion electronvolts (TeV), beats the previous record of 0.98 TeV in 2001 by America’s Tevatron collider at Fermilab outside of Chicago. So, you might be asking, why should we care? Well, to figure out
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60 Minutes has a fascinating piece this past Sunday on paleontologist and Montana State University professor Jack Horner. He is your classic scientific rebel – doing things that confound the scientific establishment… and coming up with amazing and new findings as he does it… So basically, even though we know the story about how a
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In today’s Los Angeles Times, John Johnson Jr. reports the latest from NASA’s “moon crater creator” mission. Of course, the goal of the $79 million Lunar Crater Obsevation and Sensing Satellite mission isn’t merely to see if we can hit the moon with a rocket – it’s intended to impact the moon so that we can
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