Bath Salts Panic: How Media Hype Drove Drug Policy

Bath Salts Panic: How Media Hype Drove Drug Policy

Drug scares in the United States follow a remarkably consistent pattern: a substance gains popularity, sensational incidents get attributed to it with minimal evidence, media coverage amplifies the alarm, and politicians rush to ban it. In the early 2010s, synthetic...
Quantum Researchers Able to Stop and Restart Light

Quantum Researchers Able to Stop and Restart Light

In two independent experiments that defy the notions of Einstein, researchers have been able to stop, then restart a beam of light. Ordinarily, light travels at the speed of 186,282 miles per second, but the research team of Lene Hau, a professor of physics at...