Recent content by Ralph Dratman

This surprising statement -- "the researchers compared the DNA of modern Indians to that of sequenced Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes and found that Indians, like most non-Africans, inherited between 1% and 2% of their DNA from these groups. This DNA is highly diverse: Almost 90% of all known...

It's too bad our world is not usually at cryogenic temperatures. If it were, we could use all sorts of effects like superconductivity and superfluidity all the time. That would change our lives immensely. Maybe at some point physicists will find out how to make these fascinating states of matter...