As China looks on at a world opening up, can Xi Jinping survive zero-Covid?

Click Here to Read: As China looks on at a world opening up, can Xi Jinping survive zero-Covid?  With 340m people living under lockdown or restrictions, the administration are sticking to their stance. But at what cost? Shanghai’s month under lockdown – in pictures by Helen Davidson in Taipei on the Guardian website on April 28, 2022.
Shanghai Disneyland after lockdown in Pudong area for COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai in March 2022.  Image: 中国新闻网 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Planck era: Imagining our infant universe

Click Here to Read: The Planck era: Imagining our infant universe: During the Planck era, the universe was so small that our laws of physics break down. To dive deeper back in time, we’ll need new scientific language By Sten Odenwald  on the Astronomy.com website on April 21, 2022 

The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) team has made the first detailed full-sky map of the oldest light in the universe. It is a “baby picture” of the universe. Colors indicate “warmer” (red) and “cooler” (blue) spots. The oval shape is a projection to display the whole sky; similar to the way the globe of the earth can be projected as an oval. Image: NASA.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.