Climate change: Five things we have learned from the IPCC report

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 17, 2021August 17, 2021 Politics, Science

Click Here to Read: Climate change: Five things we have learned from the IPCC report By Matt McGrath on the BBC News website on August 9, 2021, Satelite image from NASA showning wildfires from Athens, Greece in 5 August 2021 Image: worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Assault on Empiricism

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 17, 2021August 17, 2021 Politics, Science

Click Here to Read: From crime to climate change, the hostility of ‘movements’ to data is making it impossible to address real-world problems BY Wilfred Reilly on the Tablet website on August 11, 2021.
Proud Boys at Confederate protest with Fred Perry polo Image: Anthony Crider. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Hints of a new fundamental force

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 17, 2021August 17, 2021 Science

Click Here to Read: Hints of a new fundamental force: Are we on the brink of a breakthrough in particle physics? Harry Cliff on the iai website on August 9, 2021.
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Is space infinite? We asked 5 experts

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 12, 2021August 12, 2021 Science

Click Here to Read: Is space infinite? We asked 5 experts on the Conversation Website on August 10, 2021.
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Colliding photons were spotted making matter

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 11, 2021August 11, 2021 Science

Click Here to Read: Colliding photons were spotted making matter. But are the photons ‘real’? In a demonstration of Einstein’s E=mc2, collisions of light yielded electrons and positrons By Emily Conover on the Science News website on August 9, 2021.
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Why Your Sleeping Brain Replays New Rewarding Experiences

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 11, 2021August 11, 2021 Science

Click Here to Read: Why Your Sleeping Brain Replays New Rewarding Experiences Posted by Jim Davies on the Nautilus Website on August 06, 2021. Image: KathyG123 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Learning to Live in Steven Weinberg’s Pointless Universe

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 5, 2021August 5, 2021 Science

Click Here to Read: Learning to Live in Steven Weinberg’s Pointless Universe: The late physicist’s most infamous statement still beguiles scientists and vexes believers By Dan Falk on the Scientific American Website on July 27, 2021.
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