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Why Our Brains Love Origins
We like to know where things come from. We like stories. We like nice tales. We need our myths,...
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For U.S. Science, A Crisis Looms
The United States is at risk of ceding its leadership in science, a number of physicists said, though there...
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Controlling Quantum Tunneling With Light
New work suggests constructing novel particle opens the door to taming the mysteries of quantum tunnelling.
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Scholarship, Liberated From Paper at Last
The evolution of digital scholarship is astounding. Today almost all research papers are born digital. Words, images, data, models—all...
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On Free Will, the Singularity and the Quest to Crack Consciousness
From John Horgan’s Cross-Check blog at SciAm: A professor at Caltech, Christof Koch helped popularize consciousness as a topic for...
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What Science Wants to Know
Ignorance will always grow faster than knowledge. Scientists and laypeople alike would agree that for all we have come...
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Scientists Send Encoded Message Through Rock Via Neutrino Beam
Humankind is constantly inventing new ways to stay in touch. But in some situations it’s difficult to keep the...
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The Mystifying History of Neutrino Experiments
Late last year, scientists with the OPERA collaboration in Gran Sasso, Italy reported an incredible finding: neutrinos that appeared...
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The Flame Challenge
Scientists have recognized for some time that there is a harmful gap in understanding between their work and much...
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Modeling Strategy Can Help Trace Roots of Widespread Phenomena
Predicting the future is notoriously difficult, but uncovering the past can be just as tricky. Now researchers have developed...