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Indiana Jones star calls US president one history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels Harrison Ford has said that Donald Trump’s assault upon measures to address the climate crisis “scares the shit out of me” and makes the US president among the worst criminals in history. In a blistering attack upon the president, Ford told the Guardian that Trump “doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the shit out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.” Continue reading...

Researchers combined OLEDs with metasurfaces to project holograms. The method enables simpler, cheaper, and smaller displays. New research from the University of St Andrews is advancing holographic te...

There's a recent paper on arXiv with the title A direct black hole mass measurement in a Little Red Dot at the Epoch of Reionizationon by Juodžbalis et al. that is causing a lot of interest. The paper is here and the abstract is: There is a discussion of this in the Grauniad here and in several other places on the interwebs.

The Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter, which would have annihilated each other in a spectacular burst of pure energy. But it didn’t. New experiments focused on under...