By Donna Lu China’s population growth has been stagnatingDescription:Visual China Group via Getty Images A Chinese government policy allowing all couples to have two children led to an additional 5.4 million births in the first 18 months after it took effect. China’s universal two-child policy, announced in October 2015, was designed to boost the country’s […]
In 2014, we travelled to the northern boreal forests of Canada to set experimental fires that would help us understand the effect of wildfires on the global carbon cycle. Sadly, we never got the chance to set those fires, because the firefighters enlisted to help us were busy dealing with an area the size of […]
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You may have heard that, on Monday, Silicon Valley startup Cerebras Systems unveiled the world’s biggest chip, called the WSE, or “wafer-scale engine,” pronounced “wise.” It is going to be built into complete computing systems sold by Cerebras. What you may not know is that the WSE and the systems it makes possible have some […]
This changes everything | To make the internet a better place we could start by switching off the world’s biggest video sharing site amid claims its algorithms magnify fringe views, says Annalee Newitz Technology | Comment 21 August 2019 By Annalee Newitz Reuters/Dado Ruvic A FEW years ago, the biggest complaint about YouTube was that if you […]
India’s decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir in early August, and the repression and communications blackout that followed, is another step in India’s long history of colonising Kashmir. Narendra Modi’s administration effectively annexed Kashmir by abrogating Article 370 of the Indian constitution, adopted in 1954 to guarantee Kashmir’s semi-autonomous status. But […]
A radical new idea erases quantum theory’s weird uncertainties – by ripping up all we thought we knew about how the universe works, says physicist Lee Smolin Physics 21 August 2019 By Lee Smolin Natalie Nicklin QUANTUM mechanics is often called a theory of the very small. In reality, it explains phenomena on a vast […]
It’s well known that there’s a worldwide shortage of organ donors. More than 100,000 organ transplants have taken place around the world every year since 2008 but this is way below what’s needed. In the UK, for example, figures show 6,077 people were on the waiting list for an organ transplant in March 2019. And […]
By Jessica Hamzelou High blood pressure has been linked to brain shrinkage in later lifeasiseeit/Getty People who have high blood pressure in their 40s seem to have smaller brains by the time they get to age 70. The findings provide more evidence that looking after your health can help prevent dementia, says Jonathan Schott at […]
Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books were first published in 1894 and 1895, and they feature stories about Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. The stories have remained popular and have inspired numerous adaptations – but their attitudes have been questioned by some parents and critics, who see them as a relic […]