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Oct 3
2018

The Next Social Networks Could Be Brain-to-Brain

It might already feel like social media is taking up too much of our mental space, but just wait until it’s literally inside of our brains.

Physicists and neuroscientists have developed the world’s first “brain-to-brain” network, using electroencephalograms (EEGs), which record electrical activity in the brain, and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which can transmit information into the brain, to allow people to communicate directly with each other’s brains — a new and thrilling (and a little terrifying?) example of science fiction brought to life.

Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle announced last week that they successfully used their interface, which they call BrainNet, to have a small group of people play a collaborative “Tetris-like” game — with their minds.

Oct 2
2018

First woman Physics Nobel winner in 55 years

Only the third woman to win Nobel in Physics.

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to a woman for only the third time since the award began.

Oct 2
2018

University of Michigan professor wins Nobel Prize in Physics

University of Michigan professor and Frenchman Gerard Mourou won a Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for work with lasers. (Photo: Getty Images)

Oct 2
2018

Figuring out How Fast the Universe Is Expanding Might Require a New Type of Physics

Two new studies contradict each other. Under our current model, they can’t both be right.

Sep 27
2018

Illuminating Science

Illuminating mathematics, physics, biology and computer science research through public service journalism.

Sep 23
2018

Biggest Test Yet Shows Einstein Was Wrong About ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’

Physicists recently addressed a persistent flaw in a test that defines reality.

Sep 23
2018

The Physics Of Why Timekeeping First Failed In The Americas

The world’s greatest clockmaker sent a clock to the new world, and everything went haywire. The reason why will shock you.

Sep 21
2018

Build Small Nuclear Reactors for Battlefield Power

Los Alamos engineers are working on a tiny, steel-encased core regulated by physics, not pumps.

Sep 18
2018

Incredible strength of ‘nuclear pasta’ revealed in new simulations

Researchers from Indiana University and the California Institute of Technology say the new simulations could help us better understand major astrophysical phenomena, such as gravitational waves.

‘The strength of the neutron star crust, especially the bottom of the crust, is relevant to a large number of astrophysics problems, but isn’t well understood,’ says Matthew Caplan, a postdoctoral research fellow at McGill University.

Neutron stars are the product of supernovas, and are extremely dense.

Sep 15
2018

Roadmap of technological singularity

https://paper.li/e-1437691924#/

Recently, we might often have heard of the term “technological singularity” with the hypothesis that accelerating progress in technological inventions will cause a runaway effect that will make ordinary humans someday be overtaken by artificial intelligence.

The term seems to be appeared very contemporary to this technology era but in fact, thought about singularity has a long philosophical history.

In 1958, Stanish Ulam, a Polish American scientist in the fields of mathematics and nuclear physics, first used the term “singularity” in a conversation with John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, and polymath, about the technological progress.