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Isaac Schultz
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Science writer at Gizmodo, previously of Atlas Obscura. A native New Yorker. Mostly covering ancient things (on Earth and beyond) and masses extremely big or incredibly small.

At recent dark matter conference at UCLA (link to slides here: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1188759/timetable/#20230329.detailed), a number of proposed experiments want to convert axions to photons (albeit, very low energy/frequency) to detect using superconducting circuits and other difficult sounding techniques. For Read more

For a long time now I was suspecting it was WIMPS in the form of neutrinos. But this certainly is going to make me reconsider that notion given their simulation. Tho it was only 1 quasar, it would be interesting to see if their model holds up under other scenarios.
And for added bonus knowledge, I must now go review Read more

I dunno, is it a black hole or have we just zoomed in on the creation of the One Ring being made by Sauron? Maybe we’re just looking past the veil of our reality into the Tolkien dimension. Read more

Could the article be updated to include the original image, instead of a link to the other article, to make a side by side compare easier? Read more

Real Talk: Are we going to get more Mandela effects after this thing is turned on? Read more

Are we talking future tense, or past tense, or in the present particle, (er-participles). Read more

In the 50s, I enjoyed reading about the invention of the “Dirac Radio” that exhibited almost instantaneous communications. For some reason I’ve never forgotten this. The mention was, of course, in Science Fiction, well before the amazing advances in science.
My mom, even in her 90s, said, “The only thing I regret Read more

While this is really fucking fascinating it amounts to mere pulling toward scientific elements and doesn’t prove much :/ Read more

Is this the plot to that next Antman & Wasp movie? Read more

tardigrade onto a superconducting qubit”, those words don’t make sense together, might as well say “elephant onto wet fraction”. And their experiment is just trash, its like having a cat walk across your laptop. Transistors operate on a quantum level so essentially having a cat on a laptop according to them is what Read more

This is how Kaiju are made. Or how 2022 beats the prequels Read more

Quantum entanglement is the phenomenon of two or more particles defining the properties of each other. Quantumly entangled particles are interdependent—knowing something about one particle tells you something about the other— Read more

I have seen enough Star Trek Discovery to know where this is going. Read more

I loved that scene, showing that no matter how big or small, nature is beautiful and fucking scary. Read more

Occasionally Giz posts articles which make my brain grind to a halt and I cannot understand them. This is one of those occurrences. Read more

“A tardigrade, also called a water bear or a moss piglet” or a micro armadillo, or octo-nanopods, an everlasting ecdysozoa, the mini Michelin-man, the Stay-Puft Marshmallow bug, teeny weeny cuddly stubby buddies... Read more

Pretty sure this is how you give birth to interdimensional monsters. Read more