As all matter is crushed in the final moments before doomsday, intelligent life forms may be able to tunnel into higher-dimensional space or an alternative universe, avoiding the seemingly inevitable...
As Heinz Pagels has said,The challenge to our civilization which has come from our knowledge of the cosmic energies that fuels the stars, the movement of light and electrons through matter, the intric...
There is a saying among women scientists who attend highly specialized engineering universities, where the girl-to-guy ratio is decidedly in their favor: The odds are good, but the goods are odd.)
Atomic machines are actually found in nature. Cells can swim freely in water because they can wiggle tiny hairs. But when one analyzes the joint between the hair and the cell, one sees that it is actu...
على سبيل المثال، صنع علماء من جامعة كورنيل أصغير غيتار في العالم وهو أصغر بـ20 مرة من شعرة إنسان ومصنوع من بلورة سيلكونية. ولهذا الغيتار ستة أوتار كل منها بسمك 100 ذرة ويمكن العزف بتحريك الأوتار عن طر...
على الرغم من غرابتها، ليست الأحلام ترفا زائدا، وليست بقايا غير مفيدة لدماغ خامل.الأحلام في الحقيقية ضرورية للبقاء.باستخدام مسوحات الدماغ، من الممكن إظهار أن بعض الحيوانات تظهر نشاطا دماغيا يشبه الأحلا...
أن تكون فائق الذكاء لا يضمن لك النجاح في الحياة. في الحقيقة، ربما يعيقك الذكاء الفائق في الحلقات الأدنى من مجتمع يقدر الرياضيين ونجوم السينما والكوميديا ومضيفي التلفاز بشكل أكبر. لم يصبح أي إنسان ثريا...
Trabajos de intermediario, haciendo inventarios y recuentos. Esto significa que los representantes, corredores, dependientes, contables, etcétera, serán despedidos gradualmente a medida que sus puesto...
The intuitive feeling we have that there’s an executive ‘I’ that sits in a control room of our brain, scanning the screens of the senses and pushing the buttons of our muscles, is an illusion. Conscio...
The dark lady who inspired Shakespeare’s sonnets, the lady of Arosa may remain forever mysterious. (Unfortunately, because Schrödinger had so many girlfriends and lovers in his life, as well as illegi...
Surmised that pressure from sunlight creates these tails by blowing dust and ice crystals in comets away from the sun. The prescient Jules Verne anticipated light sails in From the Earth to the Moon w...
Possible for astronauts to lift impossibly heavy objects with ease.
Most religions adhere to some form of determinism and predestination. Since God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, He knows the future, and hence the future is determined ahead of time. He kn...
Hurtling in all directions; he preferred the smooth creation of mass out of nothing. In other words, the universe was timeless. It had no end, nor a beginning. It just was.
El hito siguiente en la historia de la IA: aplicar una ingeniería inversa al cerebro humano.
Acelerándose en cada década que pasa. Thurow, el economista del MIT, escribe lo siguiente: «Después de hacer la corrección necesaria, teniendo en cuenta la inflación general, los precios de los recurs...
Your grades in school, your scores on the SAT, mean less for life success than your capacity to co-operate, your ability to regulate your emotions, your capacity to delay your gratification, and your...
You can always spot the scientist at a strip club, because he is the only one examining the audience.
When you listen to the beautiful sounds of stereo music, remember that you are listening to the rhythms of trillions of electrons obeying this and other bizarre laws of quantum mechanics.But if quantu...
Today biologists believe that during the Cambrian explosion, about half a billion years ago, nature experimented with a vast array of shapes and forms for tiny, emerging multicellular creatures. Some...