Science

Debunking ‘the banana myth’ — I love bananas, specially the smoothie mixed with a spoon full of peanut butter and milk. But did you know that they are a bit radioactive? I mean literally extremely tiny bit! The level of radioactivity in a single banana is very small and it is due to the presence…

This article introduces and explains our recent explorations in AI becoming a scientist: AI becomes a masterbrain scientist. Related papers: AI becomes a masterbrain scientist Recent rapid and unexpected advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have dramatically shocked the world. Large…www.biorxiv.org Cite: @article{yang2023ai, title={AI becomes a masterbrain scientist}, author={YANG, Zijie and WANG, Yukai and ZHANG, Lijing}, journal={bioRxiv}, pages={2023--04}, year={2023}, publisher={Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory} }

Major indicators of global ecological health are heading in the wrong direction. From atmospheric carbon to species extinctions, chemical pollution load, biodiversity, acres of old-growth forest, size of oceanic deadzones, and extent of coral reefs, the news is bad. The blame doesn’t fall entirely, or even largely, on us. Our…

The solution to the partial differential equation that gave the Allies the first atomic bomb in WWII. — This article is the third of a series on the maths and physics behind the development of nuclear weapons in WWII. For more of an introduction and some historical context, I encourage you to check out the first article of the series: How a Small Miscalculation Stopped Germany From Developing the Atomic Bomb in WWII Heisenberg’s controversial miscalculation of the critical mass of an atomic bomb.www.cantorsparadise.com

Hint: Yes, but how? — Sometimes, it can feel like climate change is a problem for the future. Something we should prepare for and avert from happening. We forget that we have been systematically polluting and decimating this beautiful Earth for over 150 years, and climate change’s terrible teeth have already had plenty of time…

Our current scientific knowledge implies that advanced technological civilizations on Earth-like exoplanets might have produced artificial life or baby universes in their laboratories if their star formed billions of years before the Sun. …

What mice may be able to tell us about the incel movement, MRA’s, and the hikikomori movement. — Shortly after my meltdown, I was talking to Jessica Wildfire about a bunch of stuff this week. She’s an incredible person and you should check out her writing if you haven’t. One of the things we talked about was behavioral sinks. The more we talked about cities and social media…

Hidden treasures of combinatorics — What do fractals have to do with open questions about mysterious primes and basic combinatorics? In this article, we will explore patterns in one of the most interesting and well-studied mathematical objects. We will see how famous sequences of numbers, fractals, Fermat primes, and other amazing stuff is hidden in…

This is how Ukraine wants to break through the Russian front It has been five days since the eight-month battle for the city of Bachmut ended in victory for Russia. Three days since pro-Ukrainian Russian formations entered the western Russian region of Belgorod and gave Putin’s army a 30-hour demonstration. ► Since then, relative calm has prevailed along the roughly 800-kilometer-long…