Category: 7. SciTech

On the right side, k_B is called the Boltzman constant, and omega (Ω) is the number of possible “microstates.” Let me explain with an example: Say I have four coins and four people. How many different ways can I share these coins? Well, two extreme cases would be that everyone gets one coin…

The Stats don’t lie: after age 65, most people will struggle to focus visually on close-up objects. You might have seen this among your friends and relatives or even experienced it yourself, holding books, magazines, or your phone farther away from your face to try to bring words and pictures…

An ecosystem of marine life has been found thriving on and around munitions disposed in the Baltic Sea, upending our understanding of ocean…

Musicians respond to pain differently than other people, a startling new study says.

Previous research shows that persistent pain shrinks a part…

A fossilised human skull unearthed in China and dated to around one million years ago may radically change what we know about the origins of…

A fossilised human skull unearthed in China and dated to around one million years ago may radically change what we know about the origins of…

One often-repeated example illustrates the mind-boggling potential of quantum computing: A machine with 300 quantum bits could simultaneously store more information than the number of particles in the known universe.

Now process this: Harvard scientists just unveiled a system that was 10…

You might look at cooking as the straightforward act of preparing food to eat, but there’s a lot more to it — and a lot of it is science. In “Science and Cooking: Physics Meets Food, From Homemade to Haute Cuisine,” Harvard chemist Pia Sörensen, applied mathematician Michael Brenner,…