When I was pursuing a PhD at Caltech, so was my friend Jeremy. He used to throw a dinner party every few months. The email invitations welcomed friends to partake of his cooking and, if we wished, to help him …
After receiving a stem cell transplant from his brother, a 63-year-old Norwegian man known as the “Oslo patient” has become one of only a handful of people to see their HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) go into long-term remission. While HIV …
David Lloyd was awarded a London Mathematical Society Scheme 2 grant (award date 2 March, award amount £1500). The grant funds a visit of Michael Henderson (IBM, retired) to Surrey, as well as visits to Bristol, Imperial, and Manchester to …
How LMS Platforms Scale Learning For Teams Work today doesn’t happen in one place anymore. Teams are spread across cities, countries, and time zones. Sales teams work in the field, support teams work remotely, and new hires join from different …
Progress in quantum computing as an industry has been relatively stagnant for a while now. But over the past few weeks, that’s changed. Multiple groups focused on quantum cryptography (using quantum computers to break previously-unbreakable encryption protocols) published breakthrough papers …
The astronauts of the Artemis II mission have made it home. Their journey, which began in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 1 April, took them around the moon and further from Earth than any human has travelled before. On 10 …
When making pancakes, the first one is always tricky. Is the oil in the pan hot enough? Or too hot? If you start too soon, that first pancake is pale and greasy instead of golden brown and toasty. Wait too …
We all learn in school, or at least from our more rigorous choices of science fiction, that we’ll never be able to travel faster than the speed of light. At first, this may sound disappointing, but upon reflection, 186,000 miles …
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Genetic changes enabled animals to repeatedly adapt from water to land, reshaping life on Earth. The question of how life first moved from water onto land continues to fascinate scientists. Early organisms would have faced entirely new environmental pressures outside …