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A curious observer’s guide to quantum mechanics, Pt. 6: Two quantum spooks

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) One of the quietest revolutions of our current century has been the entry of quantum mechanics into our everyday technology. It used to be that quantum effects were confined to physics laboratories and delicate experiments. But modern technology increasingly relies on quantum mechanics for its basic operation, and […]

Theranos’ second lab director got $5K a month to rubber-stamp forms

Enlarge / Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former CEO of blood-testing and life sciences company Theranos, leaves the courthouse with her husband, Billy Evans, after the first day of her fraud trial in San Jose, California, on September 8, 2021. (credit: Nick Otto / AFP) In yesterday’s installment of the Elizabeth Holmes criminal trial, the jury […]

Archaeologists Uncover evidence of neurons at the Mind of Vesuvius Sufferer

Expand / / utilizing scanning electron microscopy (SEM), forensic archaeologists have discovered evidence of individual nerves at the remains of a few of those victims of this eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79. Recall when we advised you the intense heat generated during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD might have been enough […]