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Meet Shiri, the Freakishly Realistic Robotic Buttocks
In the future, when our kids’ kids are studying the origins of cybernetic humans, they will learn that one...
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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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Better Safe Than Sorry: Why We Believe In Tempting Fate
There are certain laws of nature everyone accepts. The surest way to bring about rain on an overcast day...
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LHC is Back With Big Energy Boost
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is operating again after its winter break. At the beginning of April, opposing stable...
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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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Is Free Will an Illusion?
A hot topic for several thousand years, the question of whether free will exists may never be settled to...
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Not So Fast: Second Experiment Refutes Superluminal Particles
Anyone who bet against Einstein better get out their wallet. That’s because those supposedly faster-than-light particles that shook up...
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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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Antimatter Goes Under the Microscope
The antimatter version of the hydrogen atom could soon finally give up its secrets. Scientists expect that antihydrogen will...