Science Editor, Lonic
Ivan holds a doctorate in condensed matter physics and worked on superconducting qubit error correction before moving into science journalism.
Warmer summers are altering snowpack behaviour on the world's highest mountains. The consequences show up first as timing, and timing is what avalanche safety depends on.
Similar magnitudes produce wildly different death tolls. The difference is almost entirely engineering, drills and building codes enforced over decades.
Transceivers and airbags save lives. But post-incident analysis keeps finding that the fatal error happened hours earlier, in a decision nobody registered as a decision.
Error correction finally works well enough to matter. That does not mean your encryption breaks tomorrow — here is the honest state of play.