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The Great Matrix of Being
The ten dimensions in the Great Matrix of Being give us ten ways of measuring reality — by size,…
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Miraculous Conception: Are Planets Forming Without Stars?
One of the most remarkable discoveries about exoplanets—planets that exist outside of our solar system—is that some of them...
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Gorgeous Glimpses of Calamity
"Welcome to the Anthropocene." That is the message of a stunning collection of satellite images recently compiled by the...
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Four Reasons You Shouldn’t Exist
You’re almost unfathomably lucky to exist, in almost every conceivable way. Don’t take it the wrong way. You, me,...
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Are We Martians After All?
If you looked in a mirror this morning, you may have seen a descendant of creatures from Mars. That...
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New Element 115, Ununpentium, May Join Periodic Table
The periodic table of the elements has grown ever since the first version was published by Dmitri Mendeleev in...
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The Proof in the Quantum Pudding
In early May, news reports gushed that a quantum computation device had for the first time outperformed classical computers,...
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The Truth is No Stranger Than Fiction When it Comes to Robots
Robots represent the cutting edge in science. For decades we have been promised a bright future in which these...
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West Antarctica Warmed Quickly: 20,000 Years Ago
The modern meltdown of the Antarctic Ice Sheet mirrors the frozen continent’s big thaw after the last ice age...
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Hunting Down the First Americans
James Adovasio stood on a platform on an overcast day last week, about forty feet up the side of...