The empty set may seem a bit feeble, but appearances deceive; it provides a vital building block for the whole of mathematics.
Research projects investigating the “miracle material” graphene and the human brain have won unprecedented funding of up to 1 billion euros each. Under the European Commission’s Future and Emerging Technologies programme, the backing is designed to give Europe an edge in key areas of research. Graphene – a single-layer of carbon atoms – has extraordinary…
Perhaps you’ve always been curious: What is it like on top of the world? But as for going yourself, well, you’ll leave that to the adventurers. Fortunately for you, one of those adventurers is Dan Fredinburg. And he’s not just your regular run-of-the-mill adventurer, but a professional one at Google. In fact, Fredinburg’s official title…
The arguments against an electric car are growing fewer. A vehicle in development by ECOmove – a consortium of Danish car builders – has unveiled a car that can travel 500 miles without refueling. Once a sticking point for electric vehicles, distance could be ticked off the list of grievances the driving populace has with…
Britain’s Nuffield Council on Bioethics, which examines ethical issues raised by new developments in biology and medicine, recently launched a consultation on the ethics of new technologies and devices that intervene in the human brain. The three main areas of the group’s focus are brain-computer interfaces, neurostimulation and neural stem cell therapy. Author Metanexus Editors
Invisible dark matter particles may regularly pass through our bodies, and dozens to thousands of these particles may be colliding with atoms inside us every year, according to a new calculation. Dark matter is one of the greatest scientific mysteries of our time — an invisible substance thought to make up five-sixths of all matter…
All of us are shaped by forces, even in the supposedly free thinking academy, which we perhaps only understand and evaluate years later.