Science

Quantum Mechanics  Albert Einstein supposedly said “The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the...

  Dr. Glenn McLaren   Where climate change is concerned, human imagination is a double-edged-sword. The seemingly controllable technological industrial utopia we imagined and built, has...

The contrast between artificial intelligence and ordinary computing is best documented in how machines got one up over humans in one of our favorite pastimes: board games. If you have ever wondered why we...

As professor emeritus of the University of California, Berkeley, David A. Patterson has led a distinguished academic career since joining the faculty in 1977. Patterson developed RISC I, a microprocessor...

Here is how solar panel installations work. First, the sun shines on the solar panel on the roof. Then, the panel converts energy to direct current flowing through the inverter. Finally, the inverter converts...

The direct-to-consumer genetic testing company 23andme has recently been described by journalist Erika Check Hayden as a “unicorn.”1 For Hayden, this Silicon Valley idiom describes the company’s one...

Earlier this year the National Centre for Universities & Business published their annual Survey of Academics report, which I wrote about here. The report revealed the ongoing struggle in encouraging...