Herman Pontzer, a biological anthropologist at the Pontzer lab at Duke University, works with his colleagues to “systematically measure the total energy used per day by animals and people in various walks of life,” reports Science.org. “The answers coming from their data are often surprising: Exercise doesn’t help you burn Read more…
President Biden is expected to issue an executive order next week directing agencies across the government to study cryptocurrencies and a central bank digital currency (CBDC), and come up with a government-wide strategy to regulate digital assets. According to an administration official familiar with the matter, the forthcoming directive will Read more…
No province is too small or remote for Beijing’s careful attention. Chinese technology and money have helped build one of Latin America’s largest solar energy plants in Jujuy (pronounced hu-HUY), where hundreds of thousands of panels coat the desert like giant dominoes. Chinese security cameras guard government buildings across the Read more…
The New York Stock Exchange has filed an application to register the term “NYSE” for a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), taking a step closer to setting up an online trading place for cryptocurrencies and NFTs. The hype around cryptocurrencies last year spilled over to NFTs, a form of speculative Read more…
[S]cientists at JILA, a joint operation between the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado Boulder, have measured time dilation at the smallest scale ever using the most accurate clocks in the world. The team showed that clocks located just a millimeter apart — about the Read more…
Investment banking giant JPMorgan Chase has set up shop in the Metajuku mall. The bank’s lounge features a spiral staircase, a live tiger, and an illuminated portrait of CEO Jamie Dimon. The catch? JPMorgan’s newest digs aren’t located in the real world, but in Decentraland — one of the world’s Read more…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is finally poised to legalize adaptive beam headlights in the US. The NHTSA announced that it has issued a final rule that will update the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, which currently only allow for “dumb” high- and low-beam lights. Adaptive beam lights use Read more…