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LHC Prepares for Data Pile-Up
The world’s largest particle accelerator is roaring along at an unprecedented pace, delivering torrents of data to its physicist...
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‘Ome,’ the Sound of the Scientific Universe Expanding
The age of “omes” is here. It began with the genome, continued with the proteome, branched out with the...
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Physicists Go Totally Random
Casino bosses, take note: Physicists have described a way to guarantee complete randomness in a flow of information, such...
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Culture, Not Biology, Shapes Language
From Barbara King at NPR’s 13:7, a blog set at the intersection of science and culture: There’s no language gene. There’s...
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Wikipedia and the Shifting Definition of ‘Expert’
How do we judge whether a person knows what he or she is talking about? How do we gauge...
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Controversial Research: Good Science Bad Science
It sounds like a great idea: experimentally mutate a rare but deadly virus so that scientists can do a...
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Botanical Institutions To Catalog World’s Plants
The World Flora catalog is being planned, to be comprised of scientific information and images of plant species worldwide....
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How Big Data Is Changing Astronomy
Think of all the data humans have collected over the long history of astronomy, from the cuneiform tablets of...
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Scientists Build First Working Quantum Network
Scientists at the Quantum Dynamics division of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany announced that they...