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“BigBrain” a Small Step Toward Mapping Human Mind
Imagine taking a map of a city, shredding it into 7,400 pieces, and then putting it back together. You...
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The Internet of Things
When the Large Hadron Collider went online in 2009, most scientists saw it as an unprecedented opportunity to conduct...
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The Trolley Problem With Science
Imagine a scientist who does an experiment, and doesn’t like the results. Perhaps the scientist had hoped to see...
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The Problem with the Neuroscience Backlash
Aristotle thought that the function of the brain was to cool the blood. That seems ludicrous now; through neuroscience,...
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More data storage? Here’s how to fit 1,000 terabytes on a DVD
We live in a world where digital information is exploding. Some 90% of the world’s data was generated in...
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Atlantic Ocean to Disappear in 200 Million Years?
A new map of the seafloor off the coast of Iberia—the region of Europe that includes Portugal and Spain—has...
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Naked Mole Rats Reveal Why They Are Immune to Cancer
IF HUMANS lived as long relative to body size as naked mole rats, we would last for 600 years....
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Mars Had an Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere Four Billion Years Ago
Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere more than a billion years before the Earth, say scientists. An examination of meteorites...
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Which Came First, Life or Earth?
There is a tendency for people to think science knows more than it knows. We hear phrases like “gaps...
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Pesticides Spark Broad Biodiversity Loss
Agricultural pesticides have been linked to widespread invertebrate biodiversity loss in two new research papers. Pesticide use has sharply...