The Black Lives Matter Movement
George Floyd’s Autopsy and the Structural Gaslighting of AmericaThe weaponization of medical language emboldened white supremacy with the authority of the white coat. How will we stop it from happening again?June 6, 2020 — Ann Crawford-Roberts, Sonya Shadravan, Jennifer Tsai, Nicolás E. Barceló, Allie Gips, Michael Mensah, Nichole Roxas, Alina Kung, Anna Darby, Naya Misa
Poem: ‘A Quantum Cento’
Science in meter and verse Credit: Mark RossEdited by Dava Sobel Time crystals could soon escape the laboratory. These quantum systems made of time and light are potential fugitives into our reality. By shining twin laser beams piped into a tiny disk-shaped crystal cavity this new class of matter was created unexpectedly. Detected by emitted
Chinese Spy Balloon Has Unexpected Maneuverability
Pentagon officials announced on Thursday that they had detected a Chinese “surveillance balloon” flying over Montana. On Friday the Pentagon’s press secretary said that the balloon is now over the central U.S. and moving eastward at an altitude of about 60,000 feet. Observers on the ground have been able to snap photographs and videos of
A Climate Scientist Is Evaluating the U.S.’s Spy Programs
President Joe Biden named an expert on paleoclimatology to a White House intelligence panelClimate scientist Kim Cobb speaking at the Pop Tech conference in 2010. Credit: Kris Krüg/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)President Joe Biden's Intelligence Advisory Board now includes a top climate scientist. Biden recently announced the appointment of Kim Cobb, an earth sciences professor at Brown
Mystery Portrait May Be a Raphael, Artificial Intelligence Suggests
A mysterious portrait of the Virgin Mary and Jesus may have been painted by the master Raphael, facial recognition finds. But many art historians reject the claimAn image of the de Brécy Tondo. Hassan Ugail, a professor of visual computing at the University of Bradford in England, developed an artificial intelligence facial recognition system to
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