In general, the internal structures implanted inside the metamaterial must be smaller than the wavelength of the radiation. For example, microwaves can have a wavelength of about 3 centimeters, so for...
If we look at the rise of our own civilization over the past 100,000 years, since modern humans emerged in Africa, it can be seen as the story of rising energy consumption.
If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it.
I concluded that, unhappily, I’d been born into a world dominated by a rampaging monster called ‘law’ that was both all-powerful and all-stupid
He found that mice with a defect in their CREB activator gene were virtually incapable of forming long-term memories. They were amnesiac mice. But even these forgetful mice could learn a bit if they h...
Future Of Humanity - Planetary CivilizationIn mythology, the gods lived in the divine splendor of heaven, far above the insignificant affairs of mere mortals.The Greek gods frolicked in the heavenly d...
For an animal, the past is largely a waste of precious resources, since it gives them little evolutionary advantage. But simulating the future, given the lessons of the past, is an essential reason wh...
Even with a rigorous exercise program, after a year on the space station, the bones and muscles of Russian cosmonauts are so atrophied that they can barely crawl like babies when they first return to...
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
Este enigma fue explorado en la película Star Trek: la próxima generación, en la que se encuentra una cápsula del siglo XX flotando en el espacio exterior. Dentro de la cápsula se encuentran los cuerp...
En otras palabras, los ordenadores superrápidos del futuro serán como sabios autistas, es decir, podrán memorizar amplias cantidades de información, pero no podrán hacer mucho más y serán incapaces de...
Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. Either thought is frightening. –ARTHUR C. CLARKE
Either this guy’s a total idiot, or he’s the biggest genius to hit physics in years!
Einstein wrote, Quantum mechanics calls for a great deal of respect. But some inner voice tells me that this is not the true Jacob. The theory offers a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the O...
David Eagleman describes how you can take a male stickleback fish and have a female fish trespass on its territory. The male gets confused, because it wants to mate with the female, but it also wants...
Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcom...
Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, once declared, I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.
But historically the fourth dimension has been considered a mere curiosity by physicists. No evidence has ever been found for higher dimensions. This began to change in 1919 when physicist Theodor Kal...
Bilim şüphesiz ki iki tarafı keskin bir kılıçtır; çözüme ulaştırdığı sayıda problem yaratır, ve yarattığı her problem bir öncekinden hep daha zordur.
Because our own solar system has planets moving in nice circles, astronomers naturally assumed that the balls of dust and hydrogen and helium gas that become solar systems condensed evenly. We now rea...