Click Here to Read: For churchgoers during the Covid-19 pandemic, a deadly lesson from the 1918 flu By Kristen Rogers on the CNN website on December 3, 2020.
U.S. Army Camp Hospital No. 45, Aix-Les-Bains, France, Influenza Ward No. 1. Influenza pandemic ward during World War I. Image: Unknown Photograher. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Category: Science
Does Dream Interpretation Have Any Scientific Basis?
Click Here to Read: Does Dream Interpretation Have Any Scientific Basis? Scientists are trying to wrap their heads around the content of your dreams, from the wild to the mundane By Leslie Nemo on the Discover website on December 3, 2020.
Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema (1852–1909) World of dreams. Image: VAN HAM Kunstauktionen, Köln, 15.05.2015, lot 708 via Lot-tissimo Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
A solar-powered rocket might be our ticket to interstellar space
Click Here to Read: A solar-powered rocket might be our ticket to interstellar space: Researchers tapped by NASA just conducted a first test of a decades-old concept by Daniel Oberhaus on the ars technica website on November 21, 2020.
A concept image of a spacecraft powered by a fusion-driven rocket. In this image, the crew would be in the forward-most chamber. Solar panels on the sides would collect energy to initiate the process that creates fusion. Image: Pancotti Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
In the Soup
Physicists Discover the ‘Kings and Queens of Quantumness’
The New Science of Our Ancient Bond With Dog
What Is a Particle?
Click Here to Read: What Is a Particle?: It has been thought of as many things: a pointlike object, an excitation of a field, a speck of pure math that has cut into reality. But never has physicists’ conception of a particle changed more than it is changing now by Natalie Wolchover on the Quantum Magazine website on November 12, 2020.
Quantum particle interference Image: Thierry Dugnolle Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.