Scientific American

Scientific American

[:es]FAST, the World’s Largest Radio Telescope, Zooms in on a Furious Cosmic Source[:]

China’s Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope has detected more than 1,600 fast radio bursts from a single enigmatic system
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[:es]High-Flying Sensor Detects Living Things from Far Above[:]

A new detector could keep tabs on life on Earth—and maybe beyond
Scientific American

[:es]An Unsung Female Pioneer of Computer Simulation[:]

A mid-20th-century computer experiment created a new field of science—and programmer Mary Tsingou Menzel is finally being given credit for her role in making it happen
Scientific American

[:es]Death, Physics and Wishful Thinking[:]

Fear of mortality might underlie physicists’ fondness for the anthropic principle, multiverses, superdeterminism and other shaky ideas
Scientific American

[:es]Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of Mathematics[:]

Mathematicians have expanded category theory into infinite dimensions, revealing new connections among mathematical concepts
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[:es]Solar ‘Superflares’ Rocked Earth Less Than 10,000 Years Ago—and Could Strike Again[:]

Although our sun is considered a quiet star, it is now thought to have repeatedly pelted our planet with enormous eruptions in the not too distant past. Could another occur […]
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[:es]What Structural Engineers Learned from 9/11[:]

Members of the profession study such tragic events to try and ensure that something similar won’t happen again
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[:es]InSight Lander Makes Best-Yet Maps of Martian Depths[:]

The NASA mission used seismic waves from marsquakes to perform a core-to-crust survey of the planet’s subsurface
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[:es]Fields Medals Are Concentrated in Mathematical ‘Families’[:]

In mathematics, as in many fields, who you know matters. An analysis of mathematicians’ “ancestors” (their graduate school advisers) as well as their descendants (the students they advised) shows that […]