How the Richest Man in the World Made Us Trust the COVID Vaccine — Mickey Z.

(credit unknown) Mickey Z. — World New Trust December 27, 2020 Preface: In August 2020, I wrote an article entitled, “Can a 'Warp Speed' COVID-19 Vaccine Be Safe?” It covers a lot of ground and if yo ...

Multiparty entanglement: When everything is connected | University of Amsterdam

In a multiparty entangled quantum world, everything can be connected. Credit: TheDigitalArtist Dec. 22, 2020 (Phys.org) -- Entanglement is a ubiquitous concept in modern physics research: it occurs i ...

Polarization increases with economic decline, becoming cripplingly contagious | Princeton University

CC0 Public Domain Dec. 11, 2020 (Phys.org) -- The rise of populist movements is changing political systems around the world. As support for these "anti-elite" movements intensifies, many are scrambli ...

Philosophical thoughts for the future | David Bradley

The School of Athens (1509-11) Raphael. Location: Stanza della Segnatura (Signature Room), Vatican. CC0 Public Domain Nov. 20, 2020 (Inderscience) -- Science, philosophy, and religion all attempt to ...

Like fire and ice: Why societies are increasingly fragmenting | Complexity Science Hub Vienna

People like to create social triangles with others. Red lines represent friendly and cooperative relations between individuals, blue lines are negative or hostile links. We usually cope better with b ...

A philosopher’s 350-year-old trick to get people to change their minds | Olivia Goldhill

Blaise Pascal, Palace of Versailles. Artist unknown; a copy of the painting of François II Quesnel, which was made for Gérard Edelinck en 1691, CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Sept. 11, 2016 (Quart ...

Chemicals in your living room cause diabetes | Jules Bernstein

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Nov. 10, 2020 (MedicalXpress) -- A new UC Riverside study shows flame retardants found in nearly every American home cause mice to give birth to offspring that become diabet ...

Large volcanic eruption caused the largest mass extinction | Tohoku University

The researchers found coronene-mercury enrichments in sedimentary rocks deposited in southern China and Italy 252 million years ago. Paired coronene - mercury enrichments are products of multiple pha ...

Researchers identify melatonin as possible COVID-19 treatment | Cleveland Clinic

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainNov. 9, 2020 (MedicalXpress) -- Results from a new Cleveland Clinic-led study suggest that melatonin, a hormone that regulates the sleep-wake cycle and is commonly us ...

Explaining dark matter without hypothetical undiscovered particles and without changing physical laws | Eugene Oks

For each usual hydrogen atom there could be about 5 hydrogen atoms of the 2nd flavor and they are dark. Credit: Eugene Oks Oct. 30, 2020 (ScienceX) -- The mysterious dark matter! The universe has fiv ...

Machine translation tools find word meanings vary based on news viewership | Byron Spice

Oct. 23, 2020 (TechXplore) -- It's not news that U.S. politics are highly polarized or that polarization affects cable news channels. But researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, using computer tra ...