I don’t believe, especially as an aspiring scientist, that I can call myself an atheist. At most I can claim to be agnostic for there is no way to prove that God doesn’t exist. Having grown up in the Southeastern United States, I was introduced at a young age to…

Why we may never want to use this technology — The truth is that teleportation already exists. It was theorized in a 1935 paper written by Einstein and two of his colleagues, Podolsky and Rosen. It was later proven in experiments during the 1990’s. For decades we have known that it is possible, at the quantum level, to teleport particles…

The story I’ve never shared — It excited me to hear that dreamy buzzing approach my flushed pink flesh. A puttering of wings, then a sumptuous kind of silence as they suckled blood from my body. After a while I would brush the mosquitos away or sometimes they’d fly off on their own as I reached…

How we could find an artificial consciousness — Consciousness is a slippery sensation. Sometimes I feel present, aware, in control of my body. Other times I feel like a spectator — or an animal driven by primal needs and nothing more. As a person with no religious nor spiritual beliefs I do not think there is anything after…

We can now see the black hole at the center of our own galaxy — A press conference was held this morning of May 12th at the European Southern Observatory in Germany. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project unveiled the first ever image of Sagittarius A*, the enigmatic cosmic leviathan at the center of our galaxy. The picture shows the ring of soft, wild-orange light…

“Never” is only a matter of time — The primitive era had land — rich wilderness upon which the first civilizations were built. The industrial era had giant steel machines capable of carrying humans across the globe to expand our influence. And what about this age? What will we use to change the world? The answer, of course…

The black box problem is a secret between machines — The black box problem is a profound mystery surrounding AI. It says that we may understand the input, we may understand the output, but the AI’s decision-making process which bridges these two is a black box we can’t seem to peer inside. When given the task of helping diagnose patients…

Surprising discovery brings us one step closer to superconductivity — When I wrote about superconductors and called them “the technology that will change everything”, I couldn’t help but feel an itch in the back of my mind — a vague notion that graphene and superconductors had a deeper relationship that hadn’t yet been explored. …

World altering potential could make this the future of energy — The dystopian nature of recent events should not be lost on anyone. Following the release of the newest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scientists all over the world began to stage protests outside of banks, government buildings and fossil fuel companies. One of the scientists involved…