In the search for direct detection of dark matter, the experimental focus has been on WIMPS – weakly interacting massive particles. Large crystal detectors are placed deep underground to avoid contamination

Last year Tokyo hosted a meeting of the International Standards Organization, including a session on blockchain technology to examine ideas around standards for blockchain and distributed ledgers. A member

Bitcoin is a Trillion $ Economy We often hear that we live in an Information Economy. We have an information-based economy, but we don’t have a pure form of “money as information”. Instead we have a hybrid

I had the pleasure of seeing Stephen Hawking present his scientific work a couple of times. The more memorable was a small workshop in cosmology held at Cambridge University, in the summer of 1974 or 1975,

Complete and utter nonsense. Techno-propaganda. "Blockchain's advocates for absolute decentralization have no solid ground, because (blockchain) itself is a software developed in a centralized way,"

Cosmologists call the first couple of hundred million years of the universe’s history the Dark Ages. This is the period until the first stars formed. The Cosmic Dawn is the name given to the epoch during

Despite the recent pull back from over half a trillion $ to around $450 billion, the market cap for all cryptos will be higher than at the end of 2017 and could likely exceed $1 trillion by the end of

Based on observed gravitational interactions in galactic halos (galaxy rotation curves) and in group and clusters, there appears to be 5 times as much dark matter as ordinary matter in the universe. The

Roman gold Solidus coin. York Museums Trust. CC-BY-SA 4.0 Recently, Jamie Dimon called Bitcoin a ‘fraud’. He has more recently, walked this comment back. Not surprising, since the comment was coming from

Dark Energy is the dominant constituent of the universe, accounting for 2/3 of the mass-energy balance at present. At least that is the canonical concordance cosmology, known as the ΛCDM or Lambda – Cold