AI Designs Quantum Physics Experiments Beyond What Any Human Has Conceived

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July 09, 2021

Physics AI Designs Quantum Physics Experiments Beyond What Any Human Has Conceived Originally built to speed up calculations, a machine-learning system is now making shocking progress at the frontiers of experimental quantum physics By Anil Ananthaswamy

Public Health How Dangerous Is the Delta Variant, and Will It Cause a COVID Surge in the U.S.? A new, more transmissible form of SARS-CoV-2 is rapidly spreading in the country and poses a threat to unvaccinated and partially vaccinated people By Tanya Lewis

Computing See the Highest-Resolution Atomic Image Ever Captured Scientists achieved a record level of visual detail with an imaging technique that could help develop future electronics and better batteries By Anna Blaustein

Public Health A Tsunami of Disability Is Coming as a Result of 'Long COVID' We need to plan for a future where millions of survivors are chronically ill By Claire Pomeroy

Computing How Does a Quantum Computer Work? If you understand how these systems operate, then you understand why they could change everything. By Michael Tabb,Andrea Gawrylewski,Jeffery DelViscio

Space Astronomers Thrill at Giant Comet Flying into Our Solar System The huge object may be the biggest comet ever seen. And it is already showing signs of activity as it approaches the orbit of Saturn By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Policy & Ethics Bill Gates Should Stop Telling Africans What Kind of Agriculture Africans Need Among other things, we might simply not agree By Million Belay,Bridget Mugambe

The Body Your Brain Does Something Amazing between Bouts of Intense Learning New research shows that lightning-quick neural rehearsal can supercharge learning and memory. By Karen Hopkin | 04:02

Evolution Denial of Evolution Is a Form of White Supremacy As museums reopen let’s introduce ourselves, and our children, to the original Black ancestors of all human beings By Allison Hopper

Space Black Holes Swallow Neutron Stars in a Single Bite, New Results Suggest At long last, the definitive discovery completes a trifecta of astrophysical events that were forecast by gravitational-wave astronomers By Maddie Bender

Behavior & Society 'Ambiguous Loss' from Miami-Area Condo Collapse Makes Grieving Harder In a Q&A, loss expert Pauline Boss talks about coping with extreme uncertainty in the wake of a disaster By Katherine Harmon Courage

Climate Western Heat Wave 'Virtually Impossible' without Climate Change Global warming made such an event at least 150 times more likely a new rapid analysis finds By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

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BRING SCIENCE HOME Chromatography: Be a Color Detective Paper chromatography is a method used by chemists to separate the constituents (or parts) of a solution. Credit: George Retseck Do you love to use bright and vibrant colored art supplies such as markers or paints? Do you ever wonder how these colors are made? You might have learned that many colors, such as orange and green, are made by blending other, "primary" colors. So even though our eyes see a single color, the color of a marker, for instance, might be the result of one type of color molecule or it might be a mix of color molecules responsible. This science activity will help you discover the hidden colors in water-soluble markers.

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