Author name: Emily Crane

For Quantum Computing, Pressing the Advantage Is a Risky Proposition D-Wave’s fresh claim that it has achieved “quantum advantage” has sparked criticism of the company—and of the scientific process itself By Lee Billings edited by Dean Visser D-Wave, a British Columbia–based technology firm, made a scientific and stock-market splash on Wednesday with its declaration of […]

Man Survives with Titanium Heart for 100 Days—A World First Titanium hearts could serve as a stopgap for people with heart failure who are waiting for a donor organ By Smriti Mallapaty & Nature magazine The BiVACOR is a total heart replacement made of titanium. Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images An Australian man in

CLIMATEWIRE | EPA on Wednesday announced it was walking away from virtually every important climate policy on the books, charting an aggressive course on deregulation that will take years to complete — and compliant courts. The agency at the center of federal climate action said it would roll back bedrock scientific findings, kill climate rules,

In the early 1890s Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo was just another poor girl trying to survive in the provincial town of San Pedro de Macorís in the Dominican Republic. Her life took an extraordinary turn when two brothers, both poets and essayists, arrived from the capital. They noticed something special about the young girl who

Birds Are in Trouble across the U.S. But It’s Not Too Late to Protect Them In the U.S. 42 species of birds have low and steeply declining populations that put them on the brink of disaster, scientists say By Meghan Bartels edited by Andrea Thompson An increasingly uncommon Pinyon Jay perches on the top of