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Daniel Dennett: ‘I don’t like theory of mind’ – interview
This week American philosopher Daniel Dennett, a long-time stalwart of Darwin@LSE, shared his wisdom with a lunchtime crowd in...
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Simple But Challenging: The Universe According to Planck
ESA’s Planck satellite has delivered its first all-sky image of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), bringing with it new...
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Universe Ages 80M Years; Big Bang Gets Clearer
New results from a look into the split second after the Big Bang indicate the universe is 80 million...
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Giant ALMA Telescope’s Amazing Early Discoveries Are Only The Beginning
A long, long time ago, massive, super-bright galaxies known as starburst galaxies were churning out new stars at a...
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A Laser Light Show in the Brain
In 1992, Martin Chalfie made a spectacularly useful discovery, which I like to think of as perhaps the greatest...
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Religion Without God
Before he died on February 14, Ronald Dworkin sent to The New York Review a text of his new...
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Top Universities Will Help Train STEM Teachers
A group of Tier 1 research universities — the Stanfords, Harvards and MITs of the world – will join...
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Earthquakes Turn Water Into Gold
Earthquakes have the Midas touch, a new study claims. Water in faults vaporizes during an earthquake, depositing gold, according...
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How to build a multiverse
THE heavens do not lend themselves to poking and prodding. Astronomers therefore have no choice but to rely on...
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Google Street View Goes to Its Most Extreme Destinations Yet: 4 of the Planet’s Highest Mountains
Perhaps you’ve always been curious: What is it like on top of the world? But as for going yourself,...