Alizah Gul Memon's articles News Technology Is Honeywell the New Frontrunner in Quantum Computing? Earlier last month, thermostat-company Honeywell announced that it had managed to create the world’s most powerful quantum computer, leaving behind the two major rivals in the field – Google and IBM. Honeywell claimed that its system works using more efficient technology. IBM and Google use superconducting quantum bits (“qubits”) in their systems, but Honeywell decided […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2020-05-012021-04-26 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Astronomy News The Dance that Spins Spacetime Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan and his team at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, detected relativistic frame dragging while studying a celestial laboratory located thousands of light-years away. The results were published in Science on January 30. Discovered in 1999, the laboratory, in the direction of the Southern Cross constellation, consists of […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2020-04-022021-04-27 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Life Science News Touch Transcends Our Fingertips Have you ever wondered how the blind can navigate with canes in their hands? The secret lies in an interesting part of the brain responsible for the sensation of touch, that sometimes works in ways we do not even expect! Neurobiologist, Luke Miller, was once playing with a curtain rod in his apartment when he […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2020-03-162021-04-27 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Astronomy News Unwinding the Mysteries of Spiraling Galaxies A team of astronomers used NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) to observe the galaxy M77, some 47 million light-years from Earth, finding its magnetic field to be closely correlated with the galaxy’s star-filled spiral arms.Galaxies come in various shapes and forms. Some may be spherical, some disk-like, while some spiral around a central […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2020-02-092021-04-28 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Astronomy News Meet LIGO’s Miniature Counterpart! Remember LIGO – the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory – that made headlines in 2016 for detecting gravitational waves for the very first time? Now, in 2019, scientists aim to design a gravitational-wave detector much smaller than its predecessor. While LIGO has arms 4 km long, a team of physicists and astronomers from Northwestern University wish […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2019-11-142021-09-19 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked News Technology Scientists Have Achieved “Quantum Supremacy” In a world where the word “supremacy” has negative political connotations (does “white supremacy” ring a bell?), John Preskill, a professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology, couldn’t find a more accurate term to describe the advantages of Quantum Physics over its classical counterpart, which is why he coined the term “quantum […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2019-10-272021-09-19 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Astronomy News Eerie Lights in Space Scientists from NASA have found blue and green X-ray spots shining in a distant galaxy, but the source of these spots remains a mystery. According to observations by NASA’s NuSTAR and Chandra telescopes, the strange lights suddenly emerged, shone brightly, and then disappeared in a matter of just ten days – a shorter time span […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2019-10-222021-09-19 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked News Physical Sciences Technology Quantum Mechanics Redefines Radars The quantum revolution mainly involve visible wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, but everything changed when Shabir Barzanjeh and his team at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria used special properties of quantum mechanics to make measurements that were not previously possible. Together, they used entangled microwaves to create a quantum radar. The radar works […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2019-09-222021-09-07 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Environmental Sciences News The Earth’s Lungs are on Fire! It would have been normal to assume that the Amazon was ablaze due to the increased hot temperatures this summer, but here’s the thing: the Amazon is a rainforest; dry weather, wind, and heat, cannot possibly cause result in such great fires in the forest’s tropical ecosystem. Experts say that most of the area burned […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2019-09-022021-09-06 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Environmental Sciences News Forests Can Curb Global Warming Better Than We Think Planting trees to save the environment has been chanted like a mantra for decades now, but the extent to which trees could actually make a difference was still not clear until recently when Tom Crowther, a professor of global ecosystem ecology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, published a study in Science […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2019-07-272021-06-28 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Environmental Sciences News Technology AI Has a Carbon Footprint – and It’s Massive! Researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, found that energy required to train a common AI model was equivalent to nearly five times the lifetime emissions of the average American car, including its manufacture! The paper specifically focused on determining carbon emissions for the subfield of AI called NLP (Natural-Language Processing). The researchers looked at […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2019-07-042021-06-28 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Astronomy News Astrophysicists Have Found a New Window into the World of Black Holes Elena Murchikova, a theoretical astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., worked with her colleagues to use data gathered in 2015 by the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) to discover a thin accretion disk of cool gas extremely close to Milky Way’s black hole, Sagittarius A*. 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News Technology Is Honeywell the New Frontrunner in Quantum Computing? Earlier last month, thermostat-company Honeywell announced that it had managed to create the world’s most powerful quantum computer, leaving behind the two major rivals in the field – Google and IBM. Honeywell claimed that its system works using more efficient technology. IBM and Google use superconducting quantum bits (“qubits”) in their systems, but Honeywell decided […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2020-05-012021-04-26 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Astronomy News The Dance that Spins Spacetime Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan and his team at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, detected relativistic frame dragging while studying a celestial laboratory located thousands of light-years away. The results were published in Science on January 30. Discovered in 1999, the laboratory, in the direction of the Southern Cross constellation, consists of […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2020-04-022021-04-27 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life Science News Touch Transcends Our Fingertips Have you ever wondered how the blind can navigate with canes in their hands? The secret lies in an interesting part of the brain responsible for the sensation of touch, that sometimes works in ways we do not even expect! Neurobiologist, Luke Miller, was once playing with a curtain rod in his apartment when he […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2020-03-162021-04-27 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Astronomy News Unwinding the Mysteries of Spiraling Galaxies A team of astronomers used NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) to observe the galaxy M77, some 47 million light-years from Earth, finding its magnetic field to be closely correlated with the galaxy’s star-filled spiral arms.Galaxies come in various shapes and forms. Some may be spherical, some disk-like, while some spiral around a central […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2020-02-092021-04-28 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Astronomy News Meet LIGO’s Miniature Counterpart! Remember LIGO – the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory – that made headlines in 2016 for detecting gravitational waves for the very first time? Now, in 2019, scientists aim to design a gravitational-wave detector much smaller than its predecessor. While LIGO has arms 4 km long, a team of physicists and astronomers from Northwestern University wish […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2019-11-142021-09-19 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
News Technology Scientists Have Achieved “Quantum Supremacy” In a world where the word “supremacy” has negative political connotations (does “white supremacy” ring a bell?), John Preskill, a professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology, couldn’t find a more accurate term to describe the advantages of Quantum Physics over its classical counterpart, which is why he coined the term “quantum […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2019-10-272021-09-19 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Astronomy News Eerie Lights in Space Scientists from NASA have found blue and green X-ray spots shining in a distant galaxy, but the source of these spots remains a mystery. According to observations by NASA’s NuSTAR and Chandra telescopes, the strange lights suddenly emerged, shone brightly, and then disappeared in a matter of just ten days – a shorter time span […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2019-10-222021-09-19 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
News Physical Sciences Technology Quantum Mechanics Redefines Radars The quantum revolution mainly involve visible wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, but everything changed when Shabir Barzanjeh and his team at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria used special properties of quantum mechanics to make measurements that were not previously possible. Together, they used entangled microwaves to create a quantum radar. The radar works […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2019-09-222021-09-07 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Sciences News The Earth’s Lungs are on Fire! It would have been normal to assume that the Amazon was ablaze due to the increased hot temperatures this summer, but here’s the thing: the Amazon is a rainforest; dry weather, wind, and heat, cannot possibly cause result in such great fires in the forest’s tropical ecosystem. Experts say that most of the area burned […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2019-09-022021-09-06 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Sciences News Forests Can Curb Global Warming Better Than We Think Planting trees to save the environment has been chanted like a mantra for decades now, but the extent to which trees could actually make a difference was still not clear until recently when Tom Crowther, a professor of global ecosystem ecology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, published a study in Science […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2019-07-272021-06-28 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Sciences News Technology AI Has a Carbon Footprint – and It’s Massive! Researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, found that energy required to train a common AI model was equivalent to nearly five times the lifetime emissions of the average American car, including its manufacture! The paper specifically focused on determining carbon emissions for the subfield of AI called NLP (Natural-Language Processing). The researchers looked at […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2019-07-042021-06-28 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Astronomy News Astrophysicists Have Found a New Window into the World of Black Holes Elena Murchikova, a theoretical astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., worked with her colleagues to use data gathered in 2015 by the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) to discover a thin accretion disk of cool gas extremely close to Milky Way’s black hole, Sagittarius A*. Material from the inner disk was […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2019-06-242021-06-27 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
