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Searching for Goldilocks
At least four times in the last few years, astronomers have announced they have found planets orbiting other stars...
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Entangled Diamonds Blur Quantum-Classical Divide
Two diamonds as wide as earring studs have been made to share the spooky quantum state known as entanglement....
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Can Physicists Crack the Big Puzzle?
In his new book, The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe, Oxford physicist...
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Warmer World Is the Challenge of a Generation
In the last few weeks major reports by the International Energy Agency and the UN Environment Programme have concluded...
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Dark Matter Particles May Be Heavyweights After All
Dark matter is slowly running out of places to hide. Two new looks at the gamma-ray sky suggest that...
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Creative Thinkers More Likely to Cheat
When it comes to money, creative people are more likely to cheat to get it than the less-imaginative crowd,...
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Consciousness Is a Matter of Constraint
Brain researchers and philosophers of mind have focused on brain processes, neural computations, and their correspondences with the physical...
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Pushing Past the Taboo of Climate Adaptation
Climate adaptation: reconfiguring our world’s economies and policies to work under a more extreme climate. While that might seem...
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What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age?
David Weinberger is one of our most incisive thinkers about the digital age, a senior researcher at Harvard University’s...
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Blinged-Out Stars Were Born Rich
At first glance, CS 22892-052 looks like a run-of-the-mill old star. Born about 13 billion years ago, only 700...