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Science Journalism and the Art of Expressing Uncertainty
Journalism is filled with examples of erroneous reporting turning into received opinion when reporters, editors, and the public take...
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The Sun’s Magnetic Field is about to Flip
Something big is about to happen on the sun. According to measurements from NASA-supported observatories, the sun’s vast magnetic...
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The Era of Memory Engineering Has Arrived
It’s the premise of every third sci-fi thriller. Man wakes up to his normal seeming life, but of course...
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Neuromorphic computing: The machine of a new soul
ANALOGIES change. Once, it was fashionable to describe the brain as being like the hydraulic systems employed to create...
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Black Holes + Wormholes = Quantum Answers
If physicists had a holy grail it would go by the name of Quantum Gravity. For 60 years researchers...
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What We Can Learn From the Quantum Calculations of Birds and Bacteria
As an undergraduate at Oxford University in the mid-1970s, K. Birgitta Whaley struggled to choose between chemistry and physics....
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Big Bang Light Reveals Minimum Lifetime of Photons
The notion of the speed of light as the cosmic speed limit is based on the assumption that particles...
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What Makes Something A ‘New’ Language?
For linguists, Light Warlpiri provides a unique opportunity to study the creation of a new language — one that...
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The Omega Point
Jason Silva's latest explores the Omega Point, a term coined by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to describe the maximum...
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DNA storage: The code that could save civilisation
Neither Ewan Birney nor Nick Goldman can remember exactly how they came up with the idea of storing all...