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Is Space Digital?
By the Editor on April 23, 2013
Craig Hogan believes that the world is fuzzy. This is not a metaphor. Hogan, a physicist at the University...
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Can Super Mario Save Artificial Intelligence?
By the Editor on April 23, 2013
Human brains are remarkably inefficient in some key ways: our memories are lousy; our grasp of logic is shallow,...
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Kepler telescope spies ‘most Earth-like’ worlds to date
By the Editor on April 22, 2013
The search for a far-off twin of Earth has turned up two of the most intriguing candidates yet. Scientists...
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Fascinating Rhythm: The Brain’s “Slow Waves”
By the Editor on April 18, 2013
These rhythmic signal pulses, which sweep through the brain during deep sleep at the rate of about one cycle...
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Information Is Driving a New Revolution in Manufacturing
By the Editor on April 17, 2013
Because nature does not present the world in the form we would like, we must reorder it. To create...
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Moore’s Law and the Origin of Life
By the Editor on April 16, 2013
Here’s an interesting idea. Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles every two...
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Stephen Hawking: Humanity Must Colonize Space to Survive
By the Editor on April 15, 2013
Famed British cosmologist Stephen Hawking sees only one way for humanity to survive the next millennium: colonize space. And...
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Why STEM Should Care About the Humanities
By the Editor on April 15, 2013
One need not look far these days to find people skeptical (at best) about the value of higher education....
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Human Ancestor Reconstructed, Halfway Between Chimp And Human
By the Editor on April 12, 2013
In 2008, researchers found remains of a few early human-like beings in a cave in South Africa. Now, they’ve...
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Dirty Water: Can US Clean Up Its Act?
By the Editor on April 12, 2013
More than half of our nation’s waterways are in “poor condition.” So said the “National Rivers and Streams Assessment”,...
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