Andrea Gawrylewski

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Chief Newsletter Editor at Scientific American

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Articles

Bizarre Quantum Universe

4 days ago | scientificamerican.com | Andrea Gawrylewski

In 2022 three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for proving something astonishing: the universe is not locally real. In other words, particles don’t have fixed properties until they are measured.
Bizarre Quantum Universe

4 days ago | aol.com | Andrea Gawrylewski

In 2022 three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for proving something astonishing: the universe is not locally real. In other words, particles don’t have fixed properties until they are measured.
The AI Future Is Here

Mar 4, 2025 | scientificamerican.com | Andrea Gawrylewski

In January, Chinese artificial-intelligence start-up DeepSeek blew up the dam. The company released a chatbot that rivals industry leaders such as OpenAI’s Chat-GPT o1 and Anthropic’s Claude, and its code is open source and free—an intelligence untethered. No more gatekeeping by tech behemoths; now anyone with an idea and an Internet connection can summon machine intelligence to solve problems, write computer code or dream up something entirely new. The result?
The AI Future Is Here

Mar 4, 2025 | flipboard.com | Andrea Gawrylewski

4 hours agoDon't Buy the New iPad AirApple's latest iPad Air is great. Don't buy it. When Tim Cook posted "There's something in the AIR" on X this week, it seemed to imply the company was …7 hours agoApple unveils new iPad Air, here’s what you need to knowThere’s something in the air today, and it turns out it’s a new iPad Air. Apple has officially unveiled an updated iPad Air powered by the M3 chip. There’s also a new Magic Keyboard to go along with it and an updated version of the base iPad Air.
Science for True Well-Being

Nov 27, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | Andrea Gawrylewski

Paul Saladino is an Internet-famous doctor with 2.4 million followers on Instagram. His videos promote so-called animal-based diets—meat, organs, raw dairy, some fruit and zero vegetables. Vegetables, he says, are full of toxins that humans should not consume. In other corners of the platform, hundreds of thousands of people follow influencers who say plant-based diets or juice regimens can cure cancer. Social media is full of health-related misinformation masquerading as fact.
Different, Together

Sep 3, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | Andrea Gawrylewski

In 2015 a woman posted a poorly exposed photograph of a striped dress on Tumblr. Immediately there was disagreement that spread across the Internet: some saw the dress as blue and black, others as white and gold. Remarkably, once you see the dress as either blue/black or white/gold, it may be very hard to change camps.
All the Darkness We Cannot See

May 30, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | Andrea Gawrylewski

All the Darkness We Cannot SeeThe cosmos is brimming with dark energy and other mysterious phenomenaHumans have always looked to the stars. Those pinpricks of light in the vast blackness spark curiosity, wonder and awe. Our newest orbiting observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021 and is sending back jaw-dropping images of visible and infrared light from galaxies, star-nursery nebulas and supermassive stars.
The Origin and Legacy of the Human Age

Mar 5, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | Andrea Gawrylewski

The Origin and Legacy of the Human AgeWhether we live a million more years or another week is up to usIt has never been a certainty that humans would survive on Earth. We've probably faced extinction several times in our evolutionary past, according to genetic analysis.
Road to Fulfillment

Nov 30, 2023 | scientificamerican.com | Andrea Gawrylewski

In 2021 more than 40 percent of workers worldwide considered quitting their jobs in what Anthony Klotz, a professor at University College London's School of Management, coined the “Great Resignation.” The COVID pandemic had unraveled the normal fabric of life. From work commutes to school lessons and family gatherings, the world was different by most metrics.
Perpetual Puzzle

Aug 28, 2023 | scientificamerican.com | Andrea Gawrylewski

Scientific American recently asked a variety of physicists: What is the most surprising discovery in your field? Some common themes included the expansion of the universe, neutrinos and their oscillations, and black holes. Particularly surprising was dark energy. “None of us working in physics saw that coming!” said Katherine Freese, theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Texas at Austin, about the unidentified force that makes up most of the universe.