A Major Physics Experiment Just Detected A Particle That Shouldn't Exist :: There's something strange happening in the universe, and it's either evidence of a hidden particle, or a sign that the experiments are broken.
American Foreign Policy: It’s Worse Than It Looks :: This past week I argued that the current U.S. approach to China mattered enormously, and was being grievously mishandled. The set-up for the argument was a ranking of which U.S. relationships were “most” by a variety of criteria, which the Atlantic.com’s editor Adrienne LaFrance brilliantly summarized this way: Via Twitter . Now, two reader reactions I’d like to quote. First, from the author (and
Danmark vedtager vildsvinehegnet :: Mens EU-Kommissionen udtrykker bekymring over det danske hegn, vedtager danske politikere lovforslaget.
Danske ulve er udvandret til Tyskland :: Tre ud af de otte ulve, som sidste år blev født i Vestjylland, er vandret til Tyskland. En er død efter påkørsel.
Doctors hail world first as woman’s advanced breast cancer is eradicated :: Immune cells from the woman’s own body used to wipe out tumours A woman with advanced breast cancer which had spread around her body has been completely cleared of the disease by a groundbreaking therapy that harnessed the power of her immune system to fight the tumours. It is the first time that a patient with late-stage breast cancer has been successfully treated by a form of immunotherapy that
Fungi-produced pigment shows promise as semiconductor material :: Researchers are looking at a highly durable organic pigment, used by humans in artwork for hundreds of years, as a promising possibility as a semiconductor material.
Good News for Women With Breast Cancer: Many Don’t Need Chemo :: Many women with early-stage forms of the disease can forego chemo, based on a test that measures the activity of genes involved in breast cancer recurrence.
Grindehval havde slugt 80 plastikposer – kunne ikke reddes :: De cirka otte kilo plastikposer i hvalens mave gjorde det umuligt for den at indtage føde.
Guatemala volcano: Dozens die as Fuego volcano erupts :: Guatemala Fuego VolcanoDeadly torrents of hot gas and volcanic debris engulf villages on the slopes of Fuego volcano.
Hormonforstyrrende stof skriver din bon – og erstattes af endnu et :: Bisphenol A (BPA) bruges i termopapir, som er det papir, en bon udskrives på. Det bliver ulovligt i EU i 2020, men dets typiske afløser, bisphenol S (BPS) er også hormonforstyrrende.
Ingeniør i krydsfeltet mellem fysik og arkæologi :: Civilingeniør forlod sit fysikprofessorat for at uddanne sig til arkæolog. Nu fremmer hans fysikviden forståelsen af fortiden.
Ingeniøren vinder Bording prisen for dækning af signalprogrammet :: Senere på måneden fortæller journalisterne om hele projektet.
Is there an end to the periodic table? MSU professor explores its limits :: As the 150th anniversary of the formulation of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements looms, a Michigan State University professor probes the table's limits in a recent Nature Physics Perspective.
Massive Visa Outage Shows the Fragility of Global Payments :: Customers across Europe couldn't make payments with Visa Friday, underscoring some of the risks in complex, centralized networks.
Milliarddyr gasledning graver hele Danmark op for polakkernes skyld :: ANALYSE: Ny gasledning til Polen hverken forbedrer forsyningssikkerheden eller fremmer den grønne omstilling i Danmark. Alligevel er der ingen debat om projektet.
Nothing Unites a Team Like Getting Disinvited From the White House :: Of all the events that were almost unimaginable before Donald Trump took office, the disinvitation of the the Philadelphia Eagles to the White House less than 24 hours before their scheduled visit has to rank high. Traditionally, NFL games feature paroxysms of patriotism—the fading contrails of fighter jets; American flags the size of small nation-states—and the White House visit of the Super Bow
Remembering Anthony Bourdain :: If you are having thoughts of suicide, please know that you are not alone. If you are in danger of acting on suicidal thoughts, call 911. For support and resources, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or text 741-741 for the Crisis Text Line. What made Anthony Bourdain distinct as a writer was what made him a great television personality: He unprettified reality and fo
Scientists develop material that could regenerate dental enamel :: Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have developed a new way to grow mineralised materials which could regenerate hard tissues such as dental enamel and bone.
Scientists find ordered magnetic patterns in disordered magnetic material :: A team of scientists working at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has confirmed a special property known as "chirality—which potentially could be exploited to transmit and store data in a new way—in nanometers-thick samples of multilayer materials that have a disordered structure.
Senate Investigators May Have Found a Missing Piece in the Russia Probe :: An ex-congressman has attracted scrutiny from the Senate Judiciary Committee, as it continues to investigate whether President Donald Trump’s campaign conspired with Moscow to sway the 2016 presidential election. Curt Weldon, a Republican and former Pennsylvania congressman, lost his re-election campaign more than a decade ago following an FBI probe into his ties to two Russian companies . He has
Transferring quantum information using sound :: Quantum physics has led to new types of sensors, secure data transmission methods and researchers are working toward computers. However, the main obstacle is finding the right way to couple and precisely control a sufficient number of quantum systems (for example, individual atoms).
Why ‘certainty’ is good for romance :: Uncertainty about a potential romantic partner’s interest in you may lead you to see the person as less sexually attractive, according to a new study. “People experience higher levels of sexual desire when they feel confident about a partner’s interest and acceptance…” “People may protect themselves from the possibility of a painful rejection by distancing themselves from potentially rejecting pa