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Why Study Humanities? What I Tell Engineering Freshmen
What’s the point of the humanities? Of studying philosophy, history, literature and “soft” sciences like psychology and poly sci?...
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Lopsided Map of the Cosmos Offers New Clues to the Universe’s Origins
If our universe slammed into a neighboring one during a growth spurt in its first second, the collision would...
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Does Life Have A Purpose?
I don’t mean our private lives, our personal choices and hopes, the plans we make along the years. I...
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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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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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Mysterious Subatomic Particle May Represent Exotic New Form of Matter
In the course of exploring the properties of a strange subatomic particle, physicists may have stumbled upon something even...