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A Neurologist Explains Why Daylight Saving Time Isn’t Healthy

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As people in the US prepare to turn their clocks ahead one hour in mid-March, I find myself bracing for the annual ritual of media stories about the disruptions to daily routines caused by switching from standard time to daylight saving time.   About a third of Americans say they don’t look forward to these … Read more

What’s Inside a Black Hole? Quantum Computers May Be Able to Simulate It

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Both quantum computing and machine learning have been touted as the next big computer revolution for a fair while now. However, experts have pointed out that these techniques aren’t generalized tools – they will only be the great leap forward in computer power for very specialized algorithms, and even more rarely will they be able … Read more

2021: a year physicists asked, ‘What lies beyond the Standard Model?’

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This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Aaron McGowan, Principal Lecturer in Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology If you ask a physicist like me to explain how the world works, my lazy answer might be: “It follows the Standard Model.” … Read more