Click Here to Read: Real-World ‘Schrödinger’s Cat’ Brings Quantum Computing Breakthrough on the Newsweek website on January 14, 2025 .
An illustration of the famous “Schrödinger’s Cat” thought experiment. Created with Photoshop CS2 using illustrations from the Commons. Image: File:Kamee01.jpg: Martin Bahmann. File:Geiger counter.jpg: Boffy b
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Click Here to Read: Who built Europe’s first cities? Clues about the urban revolution emerge: Around 6,000 years ago, a group known as the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture developed egalitarian settlements north of the Black Sea and created the region’s earliest urban centres. Then, after two millennia, they vanished. By Emma Marris on the Nature website on January 7, 2025.
A map of the approximate extent of the Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypillian culture.Image: Saukkomies at English Wikipedia. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: The Terrible Trauma of Wildfires: And the Challenge in Understanding Those Affected by the Fires (Vol. 5; Issue 3) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD on the Journeys into the Unconscious Mind webite on
January 15, 2025/.
Bobcat Fire view from our kitchen window in Monrovia, CA, September 10, 2020Image: Eddiem360, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: New Superconductive Materials Have Just Been Discovered: Three exotic new species of superconductivity were spotted last year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to form a frictionless quantum soup by Charlie Wood on the Wired website on January 12, 2025.
Levitation of a magnet on a superconductor Image: Julien Bobroff (user:Jubobroff), Frederic Bouquet (user:Fbouquet), Jeffrey Quilliam, LPS, Orsay, France. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: The Elephantine Memories of Food-Caching Birds: Some animals can remember where they’ve buried hundreds of thousands of seeds. Why can’t we remember where we’ve put our eyeglasses? By Matthew Hutson in The New Yorker on December 29, 2024.
Illustration from Birds of America (1827) by John James Audubon, digitally enhanced by rawpixel-com 102.jpg. Image: Rawpixel Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: The Secret to a Better City Is a Two-Wheeler: E-bikes get cars off the road and reduce pollution—and that’s only part of why places like Denver are giving them away. by Clive Thompson in Mother Jones in the January+February 2025 Issue
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