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Imprisoned in the fortress of Taureau, a tiny thumb of rock off the windswept coast of Brittany, the French revolutionary Louis-Auguste... Read More
Big ideas often rock the boat, but few have rocked it as thoroughly as the idea of evolution by natural selection. The notion that humans... Read More
It is the most extraordinary, alluring and thought-provoking of all the ways in which quantum mechanics has been interpreted. In its most... Read More
When you gaze up at the night sky, through the veil of stars and the plane of the Milky Way close by, you can't help but feel small before... Read More
On March 3, 1942, a brief item with a rather peculiar headline appeared tucked away in the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper. “Fledermaus... Read More
By blasting a miniature, experimental chip into space, scientists have created the first space-based Bose-Einstein condensate. The feat could... Read More
On the eve of one the twentieth century's most notable economic shocks — the 1973 oil crisis — an influential group of... Read More
In the molecular dance that gave birth to life on Earth, RNA appears to be a central player. But the origins of the molecule, which can store... Read More
Hrvoje Tkalčić and Thanh-Son Phạm, both at the Australian National University, reanalysed the echoes of massive earthquakes bouncing... Read More
Hrvoje Tkalčić and Thanh-Son Phạm, both at the Australian National University, reanalysed the echoes of massive earthquakes bouncing... Read More
The Standard Model is a thing of beauty. It is the most rigorous theory of particle physics, incredibly precise and accurate in its... Read More
Alexis Templeton remembers January 12, 2014, as the day the water exploded. A sturdy Pyrex bottle, sealed tight and filled with water, burst... Read More
New observations by two Arizona State University astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have caught a red dwarf star in a violent... Read More
When we're born, our brains have a great deal of flexibility. Having this flexibility to grow and change gives the immature brain the ability... Read More
An ancient group of microbes that contains some of the smallest life forms on Earth also has the smallest CRISPR gene-editing machinery... Read More
Neurons in the human brain receive electrical signals from thousands of other cells, and long neural extensions called dendrites play a... Read More
Preliminary results from the world's largest sleep study have shown that people who sleep on average between 7 to 8 hours per night performed... Read More
“Tonight I would like to share with you an idea that I am extremely passionate about,” the young man said. His long black hair... Read More
Brain surgery is not usually something that people actively seek out. However, there may be an exception: the idea of the removal of the... Read More
"Here's a question for you,” I say to our dinner guests, dodging a knowing glance from my wife. “Imagine a future in which you... Read More
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You can't get mad at a team for trying the improbable, hoping that nature cooperates. Some of the most famous discoveries of all time have come about thanks to nothing more than mere serendipity, and so if we can test something at low-cost with an insanely high reward, we tend to go for it. Believe it or not, that's the mindset that's driving the direct searches for dark matter. Read More
The late physicist and author Prof Stephen Hawking has caused controversy by suggesting a new race of superhumans could develop from wealthy people choosing to edit their and their children's DNA.Hawking, the author of A Brief History of Time, who died in March, made the predictions in a collection of articles and essays. Read More
