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Would You Kill One Person to Save Five?
This dilemma is a famous philosophical conundrum that was originally called the “trolley problem.” Now a team from Michigan...
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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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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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Ultimate Guide to the Multiverse
Whether we are searching the cosmos or probing the subatomic realm, our most successful theories lead to the inescapable...
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Oracles Past and Present: Our Means of Managing Information
Our ability to find and share information today is potentially limitless. But how did we get here? From cave...
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Why the Higgs Boson Matters
From afar it may seem entirely disconnected from the real world, but the Higgs boson is much more integral...