Today, physicists at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona demonstrated a method to manipulate the internal architecture of a single particle of light. They call these structured photons. It seems to me that this discovery changes the basic alphabet of quantum mechanics. Scientists controlled the shape and […]

The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel issued its 2025 findings during the final weeks of the previous year. I noticed the analysis focuses less on the mechanics of the engines and more on the institutional health of the organization. The long and short of it is that the United States is trying to manage a new […]

Why does the architect of our digital future still find herself sitting alone in a lecture hall designed for hundreds? I noticed a dispatch yesterday from The Stanford Daily regarding the growth of Rewriting The Code on campus. The reality for many is a seat in a computer science lecture where one woman represents the […]

The porridge lobby has finally landed its knockout blow. While the rest of us were busy tracking the slow-motion collapse of various institutions this morning, a group of researchers decided to see what happens when you shove two days of fiber down the throats of people who probably preferred a croissant. Bad cholesterol dropped by […]

I saw the cursor blink over the empty space on the screen. Last year, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases website held promises of biodefense and pandemic preparedness. Now, those nouns are ghosts. The beauty of this is that the erasure happened in the dark of an inbox. An unnamed official sent emails […]

I watched the numbers climb on the screens today. It is worth noting that the American grid is humming with a new rhythm. The Energy Information Administration released the data for 2025 showing that the United States consumed 121 terawatt-hours more than in the year before. The trend has broken. For fifteen years after 2005 […]

Five days ago, the team at the University of Osaka published a blueprint for a future where hardware mimics the cellular machinery of the human body. They built a gate. These researchers bypassed bulky mechanical switches by shrinking the architecture down to the scale of a single atom. I’m convinced that this specific configuration changes […]

The big picture The math is clear. Researchers at the Korea Institute of Energy Research just compressed a month of work into a single day. A process that took 32 days of manual labor now finishes in 17 hours. This is a 45-fold jump in speed. I noticed the data suggests a total overhaul of […]

Plastic floats on the surface of our oceans. It chokes the tides. But the sun provides a solution today. Dr. Yimin Wu at the University of Waterloo has found a way to transform this debris into acetic acid. I noticed that his team used iron atoms to mimic the enzymes found in forest fungi. The […]