Nobel Prize Winners, Write For Kids, And It’s All Open Access

"Frontiers for Young Minds” is a science journal for children, freely available and open-access. They just published their second collection written by Nobel Prize winners which includes Michael Kosterlitz on topological phase transitions (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2016) and Art McDonald on neutrinos (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2015).

Science News: 3D Image of Nuclear Reactor From Muons, Germany Brings Back Direct Current & more

You can check out the newest Science News episode here.Today we’ll talk about how to look inside a nuclear reactor with muons, eight new signals that came up in a search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, why Germany wants to bring back direct current, the plausibility of climate goals, what air pollution does to your brain, how to stab a potato with paper, a scalable quantum simulator, a glass sphere that imitates the sun, true stories that are more engaging than false stories, and of course, the telephone will ring. 

Honey Bees Make Lives Difficult For Wild Bees

A new study using data from the Island of Montréal, Canada, has found that the increase of bee-keeping in urban areas is correlated with a decline in wild bee populations. A previous study had found that wild bee species are declining worldwide, and that part of the reason is the competition with honey bees. Paper here, press release here. I talked about this problem in a previous video.

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AI Writes Music from Text

Researchers at Google have taught AI software to generate music that matches sentiments expressed in text. At the moment you cannot enter your own prompts, but they want to make the software available to the public in the near future. For now, you can listen to their examples here. 

How the Greenhouse Effect Really Works

Greenhouse gasses prevent infrared radiation from escaping to outer space, which warms the surface of earth. More greenhouse gas means more warming. Simple enough! Alas, if you look at the numbers, it turns out that most infrared radiation is absorbed almost immediately above the ground already at pre-industrial greenhouse gas levels. So how does it really work? In this week’s video I try to sort it out.

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Existential Physics: The Big Questions Raised by Modern Physics

A contrarian scientist wrestles with the big questions that modern physics raises, and what physics says about the human condition. Order it here today!