If this use of chess to represent life feels familiar, it is largely thanks to the medieval world.
There is a neurological link between serotonin levels and the brain's ability to control impulses and patience levels.
Physicist plans to karate-chop them with super-fast blasts of light. Gérard Mourou has already won a Nobel for his work with fast laser pulses. If he gets pulses 10,000 times faster, he says he can modify waste on an atomic level. If no solution is found, we’re already stuck with some 22,000 cubic meters of …