Category: Science

The naked mole rat is famous for living nearly 10x longer than other mammals of similar size. | Photo Credit: Tim Evanson The naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber) is a small, hairless rodent native to East Africa, and famous for living an astonishingly long time, up to around 37 years, nearly 10x longer than mammals…

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In March this year, the Japanese mathematician Masaki Kashiwara found out over a Zoom call that he had been awarded the Abel Prize, one of mathematics’ highest honours, for “his fundamental contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory”. Dr. Kashiwara had started developing parts of his Abel-winning work when he was 23. He is now…

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Air samples collected on clean days were often more toxic to lung cells than those collected on polluted days thanks to MCFPs, whose sources include vehicular emissions. | Photo Credit: Previn Samuel/Unsplash Governments and scientists often judge air quality by the amount of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in it. These particles can enter deep into…

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John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley), Michel H. Devoret (Yale University, Connecticut and University of California, Santa Barbara), and John M. Martinis (University of California, Santa Barbara) have shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics. The prize recognises their contributions to experimentally demonstrating the manifestation of quantum effects in macroscopic systems, confirming our faith that…

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A wafer of quantum computers. Representative image. | Photo Credit: Steve Jurvetson Randomness is essential today. From encrypting sensitive information to simulating biological systems, unpredictable numbers are indispensable. Yet most everyday random numbers aren’t truly random. Conventional computers use algorithms called pseudorandom number generators to produce sequences that look random but are ultimately predictable if…

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