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Science Journalism and the Art of Expressing Uncertainty
Journalism is filled with examples of erroneous reporting turning into received opinion when reporters, editors, and the public take...
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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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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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Can Super Mario Save Artificial Intelligence?
Human brains are remarkably inefficient in some key ways: our memories are lousy; our grasp of logic is shallow,...
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Steamrolled by Big Data
Five years ago, few people had heard the phrase “Big Data.” Now, it’s hard to go an hour without...
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Big Data: The New Replicators
Charles Darwin and Richard Dawkins may never have envisioned the current era of Big Data, but their shared fundamental...
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The Shrinking Proton: Particle Is Smaller Than Thought
How many protons can dance on the head of a pin? The answer is nowhere near as straightforward as...
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Science Stakes: Britain’s Crowded Public-Science Scene Must Evolve
Since 1799, the Royal Institution of Great Britain has occupied a grand building in London’s Mayfair, surrounded today by...
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Mathematicians Aim to Take Publishers Out of Publishing
Mathematicians plan to launch a series of free open-access journals that will host their peer-reviewed articles on the preprint...
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Finding Another Earth: How Will Scientists Confirm It Exists?
The announcement that astronomers have found a potential alien world that could be the most Earth-like exoplanet yet is...