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Author Archives: Loretta George
Dark Energy Isn’t Playing by the Rules: Why DESI’s Year 2 Results Are Shaking Up Everything We Thought We Knew
The Cosmological Constant Was Supposed to Be, Well, Constant Here’s the thing that keeps me up at night: we built an entire model of the universe on the assumption that dark energy behaves like a static, unchanging force. For nearly … Continue reading
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Microsoft’s Majorana 1 Topological Chip: Separating Genuine Progress from Quantum Hype
The February 2025 Announcement That Changed the Conversation In February 2025, Microsoft made a claim that sent ripples through the quantum computing community. The company unveiled Majorana 1, which it describes as the first processor built on a topological core … Continue reading
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The Deep Ocean Isn’t Empty, Abandoned, or Unknowable – But We’re Still Getting It Wrong
Why We Still Think We Know the Ocean Better Than We Do Here’s something that keeps me awake at night, and I mean that literally. I’ll be scrolling through ocean research at midnight, stumbling across yet another deep-sea discovery, and … Continue reading
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Quantum Error Correction Just Hit a Wall — And Google’s Willow Chip Is the Reason We’re Finally Talking About It
The Breakthrough Nobody Expected (Except Everyone Who’s Been Waiting 30 Years) In December 2024, Google unveiled something that made me abandon my sleep schedule entirely. Their Willow quantum chip achieved a milestone that researchers have been chasing since the 1990s: … Continue reading
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GLP-1 Drugs Beyond Weight Loss: What Ozempic’s 2025 Heart Failure and Addiction Data Actually Mean for Medicine
The Moment We Stopped Talking About Just Weight Loss When semaglutide first burst into public consciousness, the narrative was refreshingly simple: a drug that made people feel full, so they ate less, so they lost weight. Celebrities posted before-and-after photos. … Continue reading
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The New Town Square: How Internet Culture Is Rebuilding Human Connection
I Cannot Stop Thinking About This There are topics I write about because they matter to the industry, and then there are topics I write about because I cannot stop thinking about them. This falls into the second category. The … Continue reading
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