Photosynthesis is nature’s way of making life from light. Chlorophyll allows a tree to capture photons, extracting a portion of their energy to make the sugars that make it a tree — the raw material for leaves and bark and…
“Blessedness is within us all,” Patti Smith wrote in yet another century as she contemplated life, death, and love. (Which might, in the end, be one.) Even for the unchurched among us, who worship at the altar of reality, blessedness…
[Sol LeWitt, “Distorted Cubes (B)”] Many colleagues end up with an idealized subjectivist account… or some souped up version of hedonism, or objective list theory with [a] clever subjective requirement, and so on. I call these the Big Three (but…
Unlock the biggest mysteries of our planet and beyond with the CNET Science newsletter. Delivered Mondays. ESO Kornmesser Sheikh added that “the signals are spaced at regular frequency intervals in the data, and these intervals appear to correspond to multiples…
It’ll be our first time seeing the Microsoft exclusive first-person shooter’s campaign mode since some fans expressed concerns about the game’s visuals in a summer 2020 gameplay demo. The game was subsequently delayed by more than a year. Microsoft Halo…
[Luis Fernando Benedit, “Study for Labyrinth for White Mice”] The document is created and maintained by Linds Whittaker, a graduate student at the University of Washington. You can check it out below or at this link. Reminder: there’s an open-access spreadsheet…
Woven into Marletto’s case for counterfactuals is her love letter to science and the art of explanation: What distinguishes helpful changes in the recipe from unhelpful ones? It is a particular kind of information: information that is capable of keeping…
Read more: Wait a minute, does the 2-year phone upgrade plan still make sense? I think not Sarah Tew/CNET Read more: The iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro are out now, powered by iOS 15. So while I was aware my…
We are born without choosing to, to parents we haven’t chosen, into bodies and borders we haven’t chosen, to exist in a region of spacetime we haven’t chosen for a duration we don’t choose. As physicists know, we don’t choose…
Dune is ambitious and ambiguous — and in need of a decent ending. Warner Bros. Lady Jessica and Paul (far left and far right) join forces with Chani and Stilgar at the climax of Dune Part 1. As for Paul…