In 1913, 26-year-old Russian biologist Nikolai Vavilov went to the John Innes Horticultural Institute to study at the feet of legendary… | Continue reading
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You have to cleverly build “common knowledge” to solve this lethal riddle.WikicommonsYou’ve been caught snooping around a spooky… | Continue reading
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It all started with an odd pile of shells: a pile that, upon closer inspection, fell apart like a flower losing its petals, introducing… | Continue reading
Like most American high school students, I was required to take Chemistry and English. Chemistry thrilled only by way of the absurdity… | Continue reading
It might surprise you to find out how little evidence there is to support the idea that boosting students’ “grit”—their propensity… | Continue reading
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It’s hard to change people’s beliefs about free will. So, it can feel like a relief to realize that even when you can change people’s… | Continue reading
There exists a social hierarchy within science that strikes people who are not mixed up in it as ridiculous. It goes like this: Mathematicians… | Continue reading
Robert Burioni is a virologist at the San Raffaele University in Milan, Italy, and a serious scientist. But in 2016, something happened… | Continue reading
Slightly ovoid in shape and somewhat blurred at the edges, the black splotches were scattered across a mottled gray background, looking… | Continue reading
Eleven years ago, I sat down across from a man named Edward Espe Brown. I had returned home to Texas from a four-month stay at the… | Continue reading
I’m trying to explain to Arthur I. Miller why artworks generated by computers don’t quite do it for me. There’s no human being… | Continue reading
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One autumn afternoon in the bowels of UC Berkeley’s Li Ka Shing Center, I was looking at my brain. I had just spent 10 minutes inside… | Continue reading
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One autumn afternoon in the bowels of UC Berkeley’s Li Ka Shing Center, I was looking at my brain. I had just spent 10 minutes inside… | Continue reading
One autumn afternoon in the bowels of UC Berkeley’s Li Ka Shing Center, I was looking at my brain. I had just spent 10 minutes inside… | Continue reading
Eleven years ago, I sat down across from a man named Edward Espe Brown. I had returned home to Texas from a four-month stay at the… | Continue reading
I’m trying to explain to Arthur I. Miller why artworks generated by computers don’t quite do it for me. There’s no human being… | Continue reading
Zombies are supposed to be capable of asking any question about the nature of experience. It’s worth wondering, though, how a person… | Continue reading
Zombies are supposed to be capable of asking any question about the nature of experience. It’s worth wondering, though, how a person… | Continue reading
Zombies are supposed to be capable of asking any question about the nature of experience. It’s worth wondering, though, how a person… | Continue reading
When the power goes out, the two young scientists are plunged into pitch blackness. After exclamations and fumbling they turn their… | Continue reading
Time travel has been a beloved science-fiction idea at least since H.G. Wells wrote The Time Machine in 1895. The concept continues… | Continue reading
Time travel has been a beloved science-fiction idea at least since H.G. Wells wrote The Time Machine in 1895. The concept continues… | Continue reading
My father, Sloan Wilson, wrote novels that would help define 1950s America. I loved and admired him, but the prospect of following… | Continue reading
When the power goes out, the two young scientists are plunged into pitch blackness. After exclamations and fumbling they turn their… | Continue reading
Time travel has been a beloved science-fiction idea at least since H.G. Wells wrote The Time Machine in 1895. The concept continues… | Continue reading
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When the power goes out, the two young scientists are plunged into pitch blackness. After exclamations and fumbling they turn their… | Continue reading
Time travel has been a beloved science-fiction idea at least since H.G. Wells wrote The Time Machine in 1895. The concept continues… | Continue reading
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There are many ways to think about alien, extraterrestrial life forms. Science-fiction writers do it all the time. Scientists, more… | Continue reading
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I could stridently insist that natural selection is the only way that complex life can evolve, but that’s not strictly true. We… | Continue reading
There are many ways to think about alien, extraterrestrial life forms. Science-fiction writers do it all the time. Scientists, more… | Continue reading