The natural world has undergone an almost unimaginable regime change, reflecting the vast and growing dominance of humanity on our planet’s most important resource: freshwater. Researchers say this is the first global survey of human effects on the water cycle. Scientists have used NASA’s satellite measurements to remotely measure the …
Read More »Study maps Strange structural similarities between the human brain and the universe
One of the most beautiful storms in the universe is that shapes and patterns can be found in a wide variety of contexts: the golden spiral can be seen in the shape of the human cochlea and the spiral galaxy; The fragmented geometry of the veins resonated in the branch …
Read More »Scientists have just found a way to make quantum states last 10,000 times longer
One of the main challenges in turning quantum technology from potential to reality is getting superfine quantum states to last longer than a few milliseconds – and scientists are simply lifting the bar by a factor of about 10,000. They did this by tackling what is called decoherence: that is, …
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