Science news

Here are some interesting science news: New property of light discovered https://phys.org/news/2019-06-property.html A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Spain and the U.S. has announced that they have discovered a new property of light—self-torque. Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem https://petapixel.com/2019/07/05/goodbye-aberration-physicist-solves-2000-year-old-optical-problem/ “In this equation we describe how the shape of the second →

What if a jolt of electricity could make you happy? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/02/22/new-experiment-scientists-used-jolts-electricity-spark-actual-joy/#.XHeCgmnks0P People all around the world have been exhausting themselves of late trying to “spark joy” in their lives. Any emotion we feel has a physical cause inside our brains: Electrical charges pass from neuron to neuron. It seems that what we call happiness is →

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/14/turns-out-the-science-saying-screen-time-is-bad-isnt-science/ Is screen time good or bad? Hard to sau for sure. A new study is making waves in the worlds of tech and psychology by questioning the basis of thousands of papers and analyses with conflicting conclusions on the effect of screen time on well-being. There seems to be a lot bad science. →

https://phys.org/news/2018-12-amoeba-approximate-solutions-np-hard-problem.html This is intresting finding that Researchers have demonstrated that an amoeba (a single-celled organism) has unique computing abilities. The researchers found that an amoeba can find reasonable (nearly optimal) solutions to the TSP in an amount of time that grows only linearly as the number of cities increases. Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is an →

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07448-0 Technological advances are transforming what researchers can study at the atomic scale. Using an ultra-sensitive detector that the researchers had created and a special method for reconstructing the data, they resolved features in MoS2 down to 0.39 angstroms, two and a half times better than a conventional electron microscope would achieve. The advanced transmission →

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/to-crack-the-toughest-optimization-problems-just-add-lasers Optimization is very important but is usually computationally very hard. Optimization encompasses far more than the traveling salesman problem. Scheduling is another difficult optimization challenge. Given the fact that the era of steady, large improvements in computer-processor performance appears to be coming to a close, researchers have begun to explore machines specially designed for →

https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasas-insight-probe-has-successfully-touched-down-on-the-surface-of-mars/ NASA has confirmed that its InSight spacecraft has safely touched down on Mars, the first successful landing on the Red Planet in more than six years. Check also posting on older Mars probe at http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/2012/08/24/mars-rover/ →

https://www.quantamagazine.org/amateur-mathematician-finds-smallest-universal-cover-20181115/ →

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46143399 Soon kilogram might not be exactly what it used to be. Scientists plan to change the way the kilogram is defined. Currently, it is defined by the weight of an aging platinum-based ingot called “Le Grand K” located in Paris. Many scientists favour of defining a kilogram in terms of an electric current, but →

The 6 Creepiest Lies the Food Industry is Feeding You article claims that the food industry is based almost entirely on a series of lies that most of us just prefer to believe. Everything we love to eat is a scam article tells that pretty much on the same line. So how easy is to →