Science and Technology

The following is an email that Professor Steven Starr, the former director of the University of Missouri’s Clinical Laboratory Science Program, sent out last night. It contains useful graphics and a reminder that today is the last day of an era…

El 1 de febrero de 2026, en la 68ª edición de los Premios Grammy, la interpretación “Windows (Live)” obtuvo el Grammy a Mejor Interpretación de Jazz. Registrada en 2020 y publicada póstumamente en el ciclo Trilogy, la distinción concedida cinco…

There are news stories that do not arrive wrapped in epic narratives, nor in strident promises, nor in headlines designed to excite hope. They arrive in silence, as important things usually do. While the public space becomes saturated with shouting,…

Moving “Gestapo Greg” Bovino out of Minneapolis was a Trump administration costume change as the assaults on constitutional democracy and immigrants grind on in each of our communities. Meanwhile, multiple crises, from the climate emergency to nuclear weapons, increased poverty,…

China’s Tiangong space station has been the setting for an innovative experiment on lithium-ion batteries, conducted by the three astronauts of the Shenzhou-21 mission, according to the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This study…

In a world where the immune system can be both hero and villain, three scientists have illuminated the path to taming its excesses. On October 6, 2025, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute announced that Mary E. Brunkow, PhD;…

The discovery of an extremely metal-poor galaxy, observed thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, opens a fissure in the traditional cosmological narrative and invites us to think of the Universe not as a neat succession of closed stages, but…

For decades, physics has explained the transition from the quantum world to the classical world as a loss: coherence dissipates, superposition collapses, and reality “decides.” The notion of neocoherence proposes another reading: not the disappearance of quantum order, but its…

Contemporary physics has learned to describe the universe with unprecedented precision. Yet when it tries to say what time is, it stumbles again and again. Perhaps the problem lies not only in the models, but in the language through which…

The debate on Europe’s technological and industrial lag behind China is often framed in defensive terms: dependence, risk, unfair competition. However, the German case shows that this reading is not only incomplete, but also strategically mistaken. For a mature industrial…