How examples may (and may not) constrain creativity

Black holes may not constrain varying constants

New and rather controversial observations hint that the fine structure constant α may have been smaller in the early universe, suggesting that some of the fundamental “constants” of physics may be dynamical. In a recent paper [1], Davies, Davis, and Lineweaver have argued that black hole thermodynamics favors theories in which the speed of light c decreases with time, and disfavors those in whi...

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The Future of Healthcare Facilities: How Technology and Medical Advances May Shape Hospitals of the Future

In this review article, we aim to depict how healthcare facilities may look in the near future from an architectural design point of view. For this purpose, we review newly introduced technology and medical advances in the field of healthcare, such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotic surgery, 3D printing, and information technology (IT), and suggest how those advances may affect the archit...

Tsunami-generated magnetic fields may constrain focal mechanisms of earthquakes

A geomagnetic observatory named SFEMS is being operated on the deep seafloor in the northwest Pacific since August, 2001. SFEMS is capable of measuring both scalar and vector geomagnetic fields as well as the seafloor instrument's precise attitudes, which makes it a powerful tool in detecting the so-called oceanic dynamo effect. It was found that SFEMS captured clear magnetic signals generated ...

Confusing medical terms: disease that may or may not exist.

Patients often quote diseases or illnesses that either do not exist per se or are hard to prove that they exist. Often symptoms are vague and, therefore, difficult for patients to qualify in a language clinicians can understand, interpret and act upon. Physicians often perpetuate this by giving 'diagnoses of exclusion', or using poor explanations, oversimplifications, conflicting diagnostic cri...