At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped ...
The pendulum at the museum is attached to a 61-foot-long cable. It typically swings as the Earth rotates, knocking down pegs, until it suddenly stopped this month. The Houston Museum of Natural ...
When I was in college, the famous British poet W.H. Auden (1907-1973) was invited to speak in our town. A couple of English-major buddies and I went to hear him, but the event was sold out. We ...
This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Every Monday, Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Nathan Dean gives his insights into what’s been ...
The Bengals thumped the Ravens, 32–14, to close out the NFL’s Thanksgiving triple-header. Joe Burrow’s return predictably proved to be a total game-changer as the quarterback outplayed Lamar Jackson ...
Running is hard. Postpartum is hard. Put the two together and you have a goal harder than a negative split in the Boston Marathon. But for many moms, returning to running is an important postpartum ...
Instead of testing lots of use cases across the company, pick one area and go deep. by Goutam Challagalla, Mahwesh Khan and Fabrice Beaulieu In late 2023, when the management team at the consumer ...
The address listed for the St. Louis Mississippi River Museum is a brick four-family structure on West Belle Place just north of the Central West End. The building is seen on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. ST ...
Quantum technologies—devices that operate according to quantum mechanical principles—promise to bring users some groundbreaking innovations in whichever context they appear. Ironically, the same ...
A recent study has unveiled a surprising revelation about quantum timekeeping: the energy required to read a quantum clock surpasses the energy needed to keep it running. This discovery, published on ...
Graphic illustrating the difference in energy between running a quantum clock (left: a single electron hopping between two nanoscale regions) and reading the ticks of the clock (right). The energy ...
After two decades of almost uninterrupted socialist governments that struggled to set the economy on a sustainable path, Bolivians are waking up to a new reality. Long lines at gasoline stations are ...