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Gorgeous Glimpses of Calamity
"Welcome to the Anthropocene." That is the message of a stunning collection of satellite images recently compiled by the...
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The Proof in the Quantum Pudding
In early May, news reports gushed that a quantum computation device had for the first time outperformed classical computers,...
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The Truth is No Stranger Than Fiction When it Comes to Robots
Robots represent the cutting edge in science. For decades we have been promised a bright future in which these...
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How 3-D Printing Body Parts Will Revolutionize Medicine
A device the size of an espresso machine quietly whirs to life. The contraption isn’t filled with fresh, pungent...
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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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Computers That You Eat (or That Eat You?)
Ray Kurzweil’s dream of internal nanobots floating around our bloodstream making us immortal by eradicating diseases and slowing down...
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Why we need to bring nature back into cities
There is an optimistic view of the unprecedented migration we are witnessing from rural to urban areas, and it’s...
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Storms Reveal Iron Age Skeleton
A series of storms that hit Scotland’s Shetland Islands over the holidays revealed what archaeologists believe could be 2,000-year-old...
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Ancient Migration: Genes Link Australia With India
Australia experienced a wave of migration from India about 4,000 years ago, a genetic study suggests. It was thought...
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The Iron in Our Blood That Keeps and Kills Us
In this search for the origin of one of the world's most common genetic diseases, emerging research in evolutionary...