Ideology May Not Be What You Think but How You’re Wired
In her new book, “The Ideological Brain,” the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod outlines what makes some people prone to rigid ...
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How to stop bioterrorists from buying dangerous DNA
The companies that sell synthesized DNA to scientists need to screen their customers, lest dangerous sequences for pathogens ...
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Quantum Physics Is on the Wrong Track, Says Breakthrough Prize Winner Gerard ’t Hooft
After netting the world’s highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on his ...
Quantum cosmology with final states can explain the accelerated expansion of the universe
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Jeremiah Ostriker, Who Plumbed Dark Forces That Shape Universe, Dies at 87
There’s more to the universe than meets the eye, he found. His studies led astronomy to the dark side, changing our view of ...
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The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
This title is part of a longer publication history. The full run of this journal will be searched. TITLE HISTORY A title history is the publication history of a journal and includes a listing of the ...
Astronomers Discover First-of-Their-Kind Doomed Stars On Our Doorstep
When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.