Click Here to Read: The Quantum Computer Is About to Change the World. Three Israelis Are Leading the Revolution: The Israeli startup QM is the first company in the world to be building both the hardware and the software that will make it possible to use quantum computers – once they actually are a practical reality By Oded Carmeli on the Haaretz website on February 16, 2020.
A zooming in on a wafer of D-Wave Quantum Computers Image: Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, USA. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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Disease modelers gaze into their computers to see the future of Covid-19, and it isn’t good
Coronavirus, pangolins and racism: Why Conservationism and prejudice shouldn’t mix
Click Here to Read: Coronavirus, pangolins and racism: Why Conservationism and prejudice shouldn’t mix: Dialogues about the new coronavirus should not allow the important topic of wildlife conservation to provide a smokescreen for prejudice By Dr. Jonathan Kolby on the Think website on February 15, 2020.
Tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) in central Democratic Republic of the Congo. Image: Valerius Tygart. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Something in Deep Space Is Sending Signals to Earth in Steady 16-Day Cycles
Click Here to Read: Something in Deep Space Is Sending Signals to Earth in Steady 16-Day Cycles: Scientists have discovered the first fast radio burst that beats at a steady rhythm, and the mysterious repeating signal is coming from the outskirts of another galaxy By Becky Ferreira on the Vice website on February 7 2020.
Overall view of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope Image: Z22. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
‘I can’t wait to hold my kids again’
Click Here to Read: ‘I can’t wait to hold my kids again’: Life inside Wuhan’s quarantine: A father, a doctor, and other residents recount the coronavirus outbreak’s deadly first month by by Jane Qui on the National Geographic on February 6, 2020.
The emblem of the China Inspection and Quarantine at the Beijing International Airport. Image: Cookie Nguyen Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.