A widely used medication for diabetes prevention may unexpectedly interfere with one of the most reliable ways to lower disease risk: regular physical activity. A Rutgers-led team reported in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism that metformin appeared to …
Huge congratulations to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis on the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit.” Their superconducting Josephson-circuit experiments made quantum …
From 11 learners and two courses to 700+ employees across 37 sites — here’s how Air General built a smarter, more scalable training program. Air General is a U.S.-based airline and cargo/ground-handling company headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. With more …
Faculty recognized for the exceptional professional and personal guidance they provide postdocs. Shining a light on the critical role of mentors in a postdoc’s career, the MIT Postdoctoral Association presented the fourth annual Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring Awards to professors John Marshall …
Three more Chinese astronauts, or taikonauts, are now marooned in space following the successful return of their previously stranded comrades. The latest development highlights a potential flaw in China’s space protocols, experts say, which could put astronauts needlessly at risk. …
Students in pyjamas, competing from home. Teachers asking, “How do we join next time?” Parents inquiring about subscriptions. Administration calling it “the future.” New Generation International Schools’ first-ever World Maths Day participation was full of surprises. In just one week, …
📖Read Time: 4 minutes 📊Readability: Fairly Difficult 📐 (Advanced) 🔖Core Topics: itex, scale, relativator, hairline, relativistic The Relativator (revisited) This is an update of my 2006 post (reconstructed in 2014) Relativator: The circular slide-rule for physicists.This is a circular slide-rule …
Heads up stargazers! The Leonid meteor shower peaks tonight, bringing a flurry of shooting stars to the night sky as Earth passes through the trail of debris shed by comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. The Leonid meteor shower is active from Nov. 3 …
Towards a Theory of Bulk Orchestration It’s a key feature of living systems, perhaps even in some ways the key feature: that even right down to a molecular scale, things are orchestrated. Molecules (or at least large ones) don’t just …
You’ve probably seen the discourse — the doom-scrolling debates about whether AI has made programming obsolete. The “vibe coding” trend where people spin up apps in an evening with AI assistance has everyone from tech bros to your aunt asking: Do we even need to learn programming languages anymore? At Codecademy, we’ve been on …
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