by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

Data storage needs drive CERN to Google

This week Google announced that the company will be joining CERN openlab, a partnership that will lay the foundation of future research in cloud computing, machine learning, and quantum computing. The biggest scientific laboratory also produces the...

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

What to Know About Tanzania's Anti-LGBT Crackdown

There has been an international outcry and the World Bank withdrew a $300 million loan to Tanzania on Thursday

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

Smart Devices the Size of Dust Particles Are Coming; Here's How to Play It

Computers as small and light as particles of dust are moving out of the realm of science fiction, according to a Wall Street Journal story published last week. It is already possible, although not entirely practical, to make computers the size of a...

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

A New Study Says Low-Carb Diets May Help You Lose Weight. But Are Carbs Really So Bad For You?

Here's what the science says

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

How to Make Friends as a Middle-Aged Man, Even if the Idea Makes You Feel Weird

Actually usable advice, from a fellow middle-aged man

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

The U.S. Military Had to Clean Up After the Jonestown Massacre 40 Years Ago. What the Crew Found Was 'Beyond Imagination'

On Nov. 18, 1978, followers of Pentecostal leader Jim Jones drank cyanide-laced punch. The U.S. military was left to deal with the aftermath

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

The Internet Silences Guy Who Commented on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Clothing With Very Fun Memes

A man tweeted his observation about Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's clothing and the internet has mocked him mercilessly with memes for it.

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

Scientist on hike discovers organism so unusual it sits on new 'major branch' of tree of life

A scientist on a hike in the Canadian woods has discovered an organism that appears to sit on a new “major branch” of the evolutionary tree of life. Two species of the microscopic creatures, called hemimastigotes, were found in earth collected in No...

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

Newly Uncovered Greek City May Be Legendary Home of 'Trojan War' Prisoners

Archaeologists have uncovered portions of the ancient Greek city of Tenea, whose residents claimed they were prisoners of the Trojan War, the Greek Ministry of Culture announced this week.

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

Neil deGrasse Tyson answers Elon Musk's brainteaser interview question

You might think you're clever but could you answer the brainteaser interview question that Elon Musk has used to screen potential employees? To gauge responses to Musk's riddle, CNBC Make It recently took the question to the streets of Manhattan ,...

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

Neil deGrasse Tyson answers Elon Musk's brainteaser interview question

Neil deGrasse Tyson answers a riddle that Elon Musk reportedly asks engineers who are interviewing at his aerospace company SpaceX.

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman on the 'most costly mistake of investors'

"It’s very good for society and for the economy, that is to have a lot of people competing and a few of them succeeding and most of them failing," Daniel Kahneman said. "That’s the way capitalism works.”

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

The Latest: Landmark change to kilogram approved

VERSAILLES, France (AP) — The Latest on a scientific meeting on how to define weights and measures (all times local):

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

Jair Bolsonaro's threat means we academics have to be overtly political

How science can resist in times of Bolsonism.

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

Significant Digits For Friday, Nov. 16, 2018

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 2.4 million empty manufacturing jobs According to a new report from the consulting firm Deloitte, there will be 4.6 million American manufacturing jobs to fill i...