How much is a human life actually worth?
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Why do so few people major in computer science?
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Finally we may have a path to the fundamental theory of physics… and it’s beautiful
28 votes -
The Trump administration drove him back to China, where he invented a fast coronavirus test
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The golden quarter—Some of our greatest cultural and technological achievements took place between 1945 and 1971. Why has progress stalled?
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Jumping worms are taking over North American forests
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Scientists synthesize the voice of 3000 year old mummy
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Gene-drive technology could alter entire species, help eliminate malaria and prevent extinctions, but assessing the risks is difficult
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How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure
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Slaying the speckled monster - The history of smallpox and the origins of vaccines
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If materialism is true, the United States is probably conscious
12 votes -
Unified theory of evolution
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MIT Media Lab scientist claimed success for a deployment of food computers to a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, but the computers never worked
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Increasingly, scientists are taking note of the many indications that insects exhibit consciousness-like phenomena
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A book from Alan Turing… and a mysterious piece of paper
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How cities reshape the evolutionary path of urban wildlife
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Scott Aaronson's Quantum Supremacy FAQ
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The why of the world
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A molecular near miss
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How life sciences actually work
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The entropic brain: A theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs
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The anthropocene is a joke: On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch
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The human cost of amber - Fossils preserved in sap offer an astonishingly clear view of the distant past, but they come at a high price
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Dispelling the myth of robotic efficiency
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Airborne concentrations and chemical considerations of radioactive ruthenium from an undeclared major nuclear release in 2017
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Why soil is disappearing from farms
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Dissecting the role of the gut microbiota and diet on visceral fat mass accumulation
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How modern life is transforming the human skeleton
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This psychologist explains why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit
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The war to free science: How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world’s academic research from paywalls
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The birth-tissue profiteers - How well-meaning donations end up fueling an unproven, virtually unregulated $2 billion stem cell industry
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Bad evidence: Ten years after a landmark study blew the whistle on junk science, the fight over forensics rages on
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For patients with memory loss, working towards better diagnosis
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A new academic field is trying to pinpoint what makes things cute – and why we can’t resist them
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The devastating allure of medical miracles
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Scientists are totally rethinking animal cognition
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What does any of this have to do with physics?
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The world's oldest person: Guinness, 122-year-old Jeanne Calment and a Russian conspiracy theory
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The world’s oldest woman was 122 when she died. A researcher believes that her daughter assumed her identity in the 1930s to avoid inheritance taxes.
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The mad scramble to claim the world's most coveted meteorite
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Is science stagnant? Despite vast increases in the time and money spent on research, scientific progress is barely keeping pace with the past
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Smallest known raptor tracks suggest microraptorine activity in lakeshore setting (South Korea)
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The genius neuroscientist who might hold the key to true AI
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What if the placebo effect isn’t a trick?
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My grandfather thought he solved a cosmic mystery
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Neuralink and the brain’s magical future
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Meet the carousing, harmonica-playing Texan who just won a Nobel for his cancer breakthrough
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The impact of gratitude on adolescent materialism and generosity
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Forging Islamic science
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Our pungent history: Sweat, perfume, and the scent of death
4 votes