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“Almost 21 million Americans have at least one addiction, yet only 10% of them receive treatment. Drug overdose deaths have more than tripled since 1990. From 1999 to 2017, more than 700,000 Americans died from overdosing on a drug. Alcohol and drug addiction cost the U.S. economy over $600 billion every year.”


Addiction is more common than many realize. Millions of Americans of all walks of life struggle with drug and alcohol addiction every day.

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and IBM Research Europe recently demonstrated the laser cooling of a nanomechanical oscillator down to its zero-point energy (i.e., the point at which it contains a minimum amount of energy). Their successful demonstration, featured in Physical Review Letters, could have important implications for the development quantum technologies.

Video shows four American heavy lift rockets as if they were transparent.


Launch to orbit in real time Fuel Burn and Staging of the Saturn V.
Space Shuttle, Falcon Heavy and the Space Launch System (SLS) rockets Launching from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39.

Red = kerosene RP-1 orange = liquid hydrogen LH2 blue = liquid oxygen LOX