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World Cup Science: How AI May Be Locating The Next Superstar

Jun 09 2026 - 14:06
World Cup Science: How AI May Be Locating The Next Superstar TheConversation Tue, 06/09/2026 - 14:25 Categories Technology
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World Cup Science: How AI May Be Locating The Next Superstar

Jun 09 2026 - 14:06
World Cup Science: How AI May Be Locating The Next Superstar TheConversation Tue, 06/09/2026 - 14:25 Categories Technology
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Brain, AI And Cognition: A New Gold-Open-Access Journal

Jun 04 2026 - 04:06
Am thrilled to report here that Scilight just launched a new gold open-access journal, "Brain, AI and Cognition", of which I am the editor in chief. Below you can see the front page of a leaflet I will soon be distributing at the AI4X conference in Singapore, where I am due to give an invited talk (the two events are unrelated, but I think it will be a good place to do some advertisement of the new journal):

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Brain, AI And Cognition: A New Gold-Open-Access Journal

Jun 03 2026 - 23:06
Brain, AI And Cognition: A New Gold-Open-Access Journal Tommaso Dorigo Wed, 06/03/2026 - 23:25 Categories Neuroscience
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Brain, AI And Cognition: A New Gold-Open-Access Journal

Jun 03 2026 - 23:06
Brain, AI And Cognition: A New Gold-Open-Access Journal Tommaso Dorigo Wed, 06/03/2026 - 23:25 Categories Neuroscience
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Review: Join 'The Traveler' And You Won't Regret It

Jun 01 2026 - 13:06
What would you do if you disappeared, only to appear 24 hours later, with no memory of anything that happened and no change in you at all? And then the next day it happened again, except the time lapse doubled.

What would your family do? I don't know about you, but my alibi would not hold up. If I disappeared for three days, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John had better be with me when I return, or the wife would rain down Hell on me.

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Review: Join 'The Traveler' And You Won't Regret It

Jun 01 2026 - 08:06
Review: Join 'The Traveler' And You Won't Regret It

What would you do if you disappeared, only to appear 24 hours later, with no memory of anything that happened and no change in you at all? And then the next day it happened again, except the time lapse doubled.

What would your family do? I don't know about you, but my alibi would not hold up. If I disappeared for three days, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John had better be with me when I return, or the wife would rain down Hell on me.

Mysterious time jumps doubling every day is the premise of The Traveler by Joseph Eckert, the most innovative science-fiction story you will read this year. The protagonist begins to shift forward in time, and he quickly realizes that in two weeks he will have missed the entire childhood of his seven-year-old son. His son realizes it also, and makes a vow he will figure out how to stop it.

So they both go about their lives, him reappearing at the same time except the days doubled each instance, in the same location on D-Day, "Dad Day" - despite that being impossible. Time is not a dimension, despite what you have read in books by pop science writers. It is very much based on our three actual dimensions. Forget the stuff about twins and stopwatches, that does not make it a dimension - that makes it relative to dimensions and the universe of natural laws that exist. To actually move forward (or back) in "time" would require calculation power based on an infinite scale, because the entire universe is moving; the earth is spinning and orbiting the sun and the sun is moving in the galaxy, you get the idea. We don't even know how many galaxies there are. If I just use the city where I write this article, and ignore everything moving outside the galaxy, in the time I took to write this sentence I moved 420 miles. How will you move 140 miles every second even if earth was its own pocket universe? 22,000 miles per second is even more unrealistic.

That is part of the science mystery his son sets out to solve. How the impossible is happening. The energy it would take to travel forward in time is equivalent to a galaxy of fusion, the physics at this time unimaginable, but his child doesn't want to just know why his father was "chosen by the future" where both can happen, he wants to break the cycle.

It is out June 9th and you should make sure to get it the first chance you can.


The Traveler by Joseph Eckert via Tor Publishing, out June 9th.

It is a science mystery but some projections are fun. Science Daily today is only a site that reformats university press releases but in the future, it is a real newspaper and the science journalist we meet is an opportunist exploiting a prominent scientist for fame. How many people in media today feel like science journalism is a way to get ahead? And how many scientists think theoretical physicists are who you bring in to solve a science mystery? That's part of what makes it a hoot - and it is a time travel story, so theoretical physicists who love strings or pretending time is a dimension get to shine.

It is rare at my experience level (read: age) that I receive a book and can't put it down but that happened in this case. I sat outside yesterday and was so compelled to see what happens next I caught myself wanting to skip paragraphs of things that were descriptive so I could see how the story evolves. I didn't, I stopped myself, because there are no wasted paragraphs, no plot points, and no details you will want to skip. By page 70 you will feel like you read a whole book.

I can't stress this enough. Buy it. 

Science 2.0 rating: 5 out of 5 Bloggys!


         

Hank Mon, 06/01/2026 - 08:20
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Review: Join 'The Traveler' And You Won't Regret It

Jun 01 2026 - 08:06
Review: Join 'The Traveler' And You Won't Regret It

What would you do if you disappeared, only to appear 24 hours later, with no memory of anything that happened and no change in you at all? And then the next day it happened again, except the time lapse doubled.

What would your family do? I don't know about you, but my alibi would not hold up. If I disappeared for three days, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John had better be with me when I return, or the wife would rain down Hell on me.

Mysterious time jumps doubling every day is the premise of The Traveler by Joseph Eckert, the most innovative science-fiction story you will read this year. The protagonist begins to shift forward in time, and he quickly realizes that in two weeks he will have missed the entire childhood of his seven-year-old son. His son realizes it also, and makes a vow he will figure out how to stop it.

So they both go about their lives, him reappearing at the same time except the days doubled each instance, in the same location on D-Day, "Dad Day" - despite that being impossible. Time is not a dimension, despite what you have read in books by pop science writers. It is very much based on our three actual dimensions. Forget the stuff about twins and stopwatches, that does not make it a dimension - that makes it relative to dimensions and the universe of natural laws that exist. To actually move forward (or back) in "time" would require calculation power based on an infinite scale, because the entire universe is moving; the earth is spinning and orbiting the sun and the sun is moving in the galaxy, you get the idea. We don't even know how many galaxies there are. If I just use the city where I write this article, and ignore everything moving outside the galaxy, in the time I took to write this sentence I moved 420 miles. How will you move 140 miles every second even if earth was its own pocket universe? 22,000 miles per second is even more unrealistic.

That is part of the science mystery his son sets out to solve. How the impossible is happening. The energy it would take to travel forward in time is equivalent to a galaxy of fusion, the physics at this time unimaginable, but his child doesn't want to just know why his father was "chosen by the future" where both can happen, he wants to break the cycle.

It is out June 9th and you should make sure to get it the first chance you can.


The Traveler by Joseph Eckert via Tor Publishing, out June 9th.

It is a science mystery but some projections are fun. Science Daily today is only a site that reformats university press releases but in the future, it is a real newspaper and the science journalist we meet is an opportunist exploiting a prominent scientist for fame. How many people in media today feel like science journalism is a way to get ahead? And how many scientists think theoretical physicists are who you bring in to solve a science mystery? That's part of what makes it a hoot - and it is a time travel story, so theoretical physicists who love strings or pretending time is a dimension get to shine.

It is rare at my experience level (read: age) that I receive a book and can't put it down but that happened in this case. I sat outside yesterday and was so compelled to see what happens next I caught myself wanting to skip paragraphs of things that were descriptive so I could see how the story evolves. I didn't, I stopped myself, because there are no wasted paragraphs, no plot points, and no details you will want to skip. By page 70 you will feel like you read a whole book.

I can't stress this enough. Buy it. 

Science 2.0 rating: 5 out of 5 Bloggys!


         

Hank Mon, 06/01/2026 - 08:20
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Review: Join 'The Traveler' And You Won't Regret It

Jun 01 2026 - 08:06
Review: Join 'The Traveler' And You Won't Regret It

What would you do if you disappeared, only to appear 24 hours later, with no memory of anything that happened and no change in you at all? And then the next day it happened again, except the time lapse doubled.

What would your family do? I don't know about you, but my alibi would not hold up. If I disappeared for three days, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John had better be with me when I return, or the wife would rain down Hell on me.

Mysterious time jumps doubling every day is the premise of The Traveler by Joseph Eckert, the most innovative science-fiction story you will read this year. The protagonist begins to shift forward in time, and he quickly realizes that in two weeks he will have missed the entire childhood of his seven-year-old son. His son realizes it also, and makes a vow he will figure out how to stop it.

So they both go about their lives, him reappearing at the same time except the days doubled each instance, in the same location on D-Day, "Dad Day" - despite that being impossible. Time is not a dimension, despite what you have read in books by pop science writers. It is very much based on our three actual dimensions. Forget the stuff about twins and stopwatches, that does not make it a dimension - that makes it relative to dimensions and the universe of natural laws that exist. To actually move forward (or back) in "time" would require calculation power based on an infinite scale, because the entire universe is moving; the earth is spinning and orbiting the sun and the sun is moving in the galaxy, you get the idea. We don't even know how many galaxies there are. If I just use the city where I write this article, and ignore everything moving outside the galaxy, in the time I took to write this sentence I moved 420 miles. How will you move 140 miles every second even if earth was its own pocket universe? 22,000 miles per second is even more unrealistic.

That is part of the science mystery his son sets out to solve. How the impossible is happening. The energy it would take to travel forward in time is equivalent to a galaxy of fusion, the physics at this time unimaginable, but his child doesn't want to just know why his father was "chosen by the future" where both can happen, he wants to break the cycle.

It is out June 9th and you should make sure to get it the first chance you can.


The Traveler by Joseph Eckert via Tor Publishing, out June 9th.

It is a science mystery but some projections are fun. Science Daily today is only a site that reformats university press releases but in the future, it is a real newspaper and the science journalist we meet is an opportunist exploiting a prominent scientist for fame. How many people in media today feel like science journalism is a way to get ahead? And how many scientists think theoretical physicists are who you bring in to solve a science mystery? That's part of what makes it a hoot - and it is a time travel story, so theoretical physicists who love strings or pretending time is a dimension get to shine.

It is rare at my experience level (read: age) that I receive a book and can't put it down but that happened in this case. I sat outside yesterday and was so compelled to see what happens next I caught myself wanting to skip paragraphs of things that were descriptive so I could see how the story evolves. I didn't, I stopped myself, because there are no wasted paragraphs, no plot points, and no details you will want to skip. By page 70 you will feel like you read a whole book.

I can't stress this enough. Buy it. 

Science 2.0 rating: 5 out of 5 Bloggys!


         

Hank Mon, 06/01/2026 - 08:20
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Review: Join 'The Traveler' And You Won't Regret It

Jun 01 2026 - 08:06
Review: Join 'The Traveler' And You Won't Regret It

What would you do if you disappeared, only to appear 24 hours later, with no memory of anything that happened and no change in you at all? And then the next day it happened again, except the time lapse doubled.

What would your family do? I don't know about you, but my alibi would not hold up. If I disappeared for three days, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John had better be with me when I return, or the wife would rain down Hell on me.

Mysterious time jumps doubling every day is the premise of The Traveler by Joseph Eckert, the most innovative science-fiction story you will read this year. The protagonist begins to shift forward in time, and he quickly realizes that in two weeks he will have missed the entire childhood of his seven-year-old son. His son realizes it also, and makes a vow he will figure out how to stop it.

So they both go about their lives, him reappearing at the same time except the days doubled each instance, in the same location on D-Day, "Dad Day" - despite that being impossible. Time is not a dimension, despite what you have read in books by pop science writers. It is very much based on our three actual dimensions. Forget the stuff about twins and stopwatches, that does not make it a dimension - that makes it relative to dimensions and the universe of natural laws that exist. To actually move forward (or back) in "time" would require calculation power based on an infinite scale, because the entire universe is moving; the earth is spinning and orbiting the sun and the sun is moving in the galaxy, you get the idea. We don't even know how many galaxies there are. If I just use the city where I write this article, and ignore everything moving outside the galaxy, in the time I took to write this sentence I moved 420 miles. How will you move 140 miles every second even if earth was its own pocket universe? 22,000 miles per second is even more unrealistic.

That is part of the science mystery his son sets out to solve. How the impossible is happening. The energy it would take to travel forward in time is equivalent to a galaxy of fusion, the physics at this time unimaginable, but his child doesn't want to just know why his father was "chosen by the future" where both can happen, he wants to break the cycle.

It is out June 9th and you should make sure to get it the first chance you can.


The Traveler by Joseph Eckert via Tor Publishing, out June 9th.

It is a science mystery but some projections are fun. Science Daily today is only a site that reformats university press releases but in the future, it is a real newspaper and the science journalist we meet is an opportunist exploiting a prominent scientist for fame. How many people in media today feel like science journalism is a way to get ahead? And how many scientists think theoretical physicists are who you bring in to solve a science mystery? That's part of what makes it a hoot - and it is a time travel story, so theoretical physicists who love strings or pretending time is a dimension get to shine.

It is rare at my experience level (read: age) that I receive a book and can't put it down but that happened in this case. I sat outside yesterday and was so compelled to see what happens next I caught myself wanting to skip paragraphs of things that were descriptive so I could see how the story evolves. I didn't, I stopped myself, because there are no wasted paragraphs, no plot points, and no details you will want to skip. By page 70 you will feel like you read a whole book.

I can't stress this enough. Buy it. 

Science 2.0 rating: 5 out of 5 Bloggys!


         

Hank Mon, 06/01/2026 - 08:20
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You Didn't Feel Continental Mantle Earthquakes, But They Happened. A Lot

May 29 2026 - 12:05
A 1979 seismic event was a different kind of earthquake, and it is has intrigued scientists ever since.

A new look at old data has provided some additional answers.

On Feb. 24th, 1979, seismographs recorded a magnitude 3.8 earthquake under Randolph, Utah, located near the Idaho and Wyoming borders.

Yet no one felt a thing and the seismic data made no obvious sense. Because its focal depth was 50 miles below sea level, the hypocenter wasn't in Earth’s crust, it was well into the upper mantle.

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You Didn't Feel Continental Mantle Earthquakes, But They Happened. A Lot

May 29 2026 - 07:05
You Didn't Feel Continental Mantle Earthquakes, But They Happened. A Lot News Account Fri, 05/29/2026 - 07:03 Categories Geology
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You Didn't Feel Continental Mantle Earthquakes, But They Happened. A Lot

May 29 2026 - 07:05
You Didn't Feel Continental Mantle Earthquakes, But They Happened. A Lot News Account Fri, 05/29/2026 - 07:03 Categories Geology
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How To Overcome Leadership Battles

May 26 2026 - 14:05
In times of social rancor and strife, most will fight each other, but societies are saved by those who think about the bigger issue.

There is a lesson humans could learn from wasps. Polistes canadensis wasps are more like China than a democracy, so when their ruler dies, power struggles and social turmoil result. Amidst the violence and chaos, individuals compensate by helping the group rather than fighting each other.

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Thousands Of Unpublished Studies Show Why Conservation Efforts Miss The Mark

May 26 2026 - 13:05
Europe alone has so much unpublished, un-catalogued biological data that it is challenging to take surveys and estimates about extinction risk and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the EU's claim it will protect 30 percent of land and sea by 2030 seriously. 

A new paper revealed government's don't even know what they are not protecting already. The work revealed 40 years of gathered but never published data on marine amphipods - crustaceans - just in Italy. One type of crustacean in one country isn't even understood yet.

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Boner Bears Chocolate Supplement Recalled Because It...Works

May 26 2026 - 12:05
In 1994, United States President Bill Clinton fulfilled a campaign promise to his constituents by exempting supplements from any real FDA oversight. Scientists objected on the grounds that heavy marketing of alternatives to medicine would undermine confidence in actual medicine.(1) 

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Cyclone Cycles Increase Global Warming

May 26 2026 - 12:05
A new computer estimate says that the ocean is an important carbon sink that absorbs 40 to 60 percent of China's anthropogenic CO2 emissions but tropical cyclones prevent the oceans from absorbing more.

Understanding the impact of the ocean on sequestering carbon is important, because China builds two new coal plants each week and emits more pollution than the rest of the top 10 countries combined. Until they stop exempting themselves from pollution treaties it is important to understand what natural effects can help, since developed western countries have already sent their emissions per capita back 100 years and can't realistically get lower.

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How To Overcome Leadership Battles

May 26 2026 - 09:05
How To Overcome Leadership Battles News Account Tue, 05/26/2026 - 09:45 Categories Anthropology
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How To Overcome Leadership Battles

May 26 2026 - 09:05
How To Overcome Leadership Battles News Account Tue, 05/26/2026 - 09:45 Categories Anthropology
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Thousands Of Unpublished Studies Show Why Conservation Efforts Miss The Mark

May 26 2026 - 08:05
Thousands Of Unpublished Studies Show Why Conservation Efforts Miss The Mark News Account Tue, 05/26/2026 - 08:03 Categories Oceanography
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