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Lobsters, jellyfish, and the foolish quest for immortality
Being mortal makes life so much sweeter.
The Einstein-Bohr legacy: can we ever figure out what quantum theory means?
Quantum theory has weird implications. Trying to explain them just makes things weirder.
Pupil size surprisingly linked to differences in intelligence
Maybe eyes really are windows into the soul — or at least into the brain, as a new study finds.
We are all conspiracy theorists
In each of our minds, we draw a demarcation line between beliefs that are reasonable and those that are nonsense. Where do you draw your line?
The suction speed of an elephant’s trunk is 330 miles per hour
That’s as fast as a bullet train in Japan.
Why does life flash before your eyes in a life-threatening scenario?
“In my mind’s eye I saw many, many things: children that I hadn’t even had yet, friends that I had never seen but are now my friends.”
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Autonomous killer robots may have already killed on the battlefield
A brief passage from a recent UN report describes what could be the first-known case of an autonomous weapon, powered by artificial intelligence, killing in the battlefield.
Is Healthy Sugar Possible — and Would You Eat It?
Israeli food-tech company DouxMatok (Hebrew for “double sweet&rdquo has created a sugary product that uses 40 percent less actual sugar yet still tastes sweet.
Meet Dr. Jennifer Doudna: she’s leading the biotech revolution
She helped create CRISPR, a gene-editing technology that is changing the way we treat genetic diseases and even how we produce food.