Carolyn Kuranz Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering University of Michigan What happened in the fusion chamber? Fusion is a nuclear reaction that combines two atoms to create one or more new atoms with slightly less total mass. The difference in mass is released as energy, as described by Einstein’s
Daniel Merino Associate Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast Nehal El-Hadi Science + Technology Editor The Conversation If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy
OpenAI has trained a model called ChatGPT to interact in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction
If you read a media report on a study claiming to say something, it’s a reasonable bet that the study actually doesn’t say it. Case in point: A study ‘purporting’ to show that cannabis as a pain reliever is all just placebo. Of course the mainstream media was
Remember when Australia’s dams ran dry and Perth became a ghost city? What about when Britain became snow-less in 2020? How about when most species disappeared in 1995? What, none of those dire predictions of climate doom came true? Eh, can’t get everything right. But one prediction
Alex Dook particle.scitech.org.au Can fiddler crabs and barrel shrimp inspire the robots of the future? Robots are becoming more integrated into our everyday lives. They can vacuum and mop our floors, mow our lawns and even clean our barbecues. Beyond the home, robots are helping scientists find
Joe Bastardi cfact.org Joe Bastardi is a pioneer in extreme weather and long-range forecasting. He is the author of “The Climate Chronicles: Inconvenient Revelations You Won’t Hear From Al Gore — and Others” which you can purchase at the CFACT bookstore. His new book The Weaponization of Weather
Guy Hatchard PhD HatchardReport.com Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
Mary Hobbs dailytelegraph.co.nz About where people, with metaphorical masks off, really stand, about heroes and what our true priorities are, our position on issues of basic human rights, on the rights of parents throughout the nation, and also about love, compassion, care and seeking the best possible outcome
We’ve all been there: high summer, and one person is continually slapping themselves, waving their arms around and complaining about “These bloody mossies!” Meanwhile, someone sitting contentedly next to them wonders, “What mossies? I haven’t been bitten once.” Around these parts, it’s my wife who gets eaten
Dr Guy Hatchard HatchardReport.com GLOBE.GLOBAL Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
Patrick Carroll Patrick Carroll has a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an editorial fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. If someone were to ask you how you know Australia exists, what would you say? If you haven’t been there yourself, it can
Emmanuel A Stamatakis Andrea Luppi David Menon University of Cambridge Emmanuel A Stamatakis‘ research seeks to determine how cognitive function arises from the topographical organization and complex dynamics in the brain. Andrea Luppi is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge, working at the intersection of network science, complex
Darby Saxbe USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Magdalena Martínez García Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón IiSGM The time fathers devote to child care every week has tripled over the past 50 years in the United States. The increase in fathers’ involvement in child rearing is even
Filip Gedin Karolinska Institutet Filip Gedin, Postdoctoral Researcher, Pain research, Karolinska Institutet Cannabis is one of the most widely used drugs in the world. While there are only a few countries where cannabis is legal for recreational use, many more countries have legalised the use of cannabis for medical reasons.
Guy Hatchard PhD HatchardReport.com GLOBE.GLOBAL Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a
