A climate-sensitive bird hints at global warming’s lasting impact

Click Here to Read: A climate-sensitive bird hints at global warming’s lasting impact: The black-throated blue warbler’s migration patterns are changing, and ornithologists can’t help seeing the signs of climate change By Denise Chow on the NBC News website on  February 22, 2020.
Black-throated blue warbler.  Photo: Charles Sharpe.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Quantum Computer Is About to Change the World

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.

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.