It’s perhaps the most famous thought experiment in all of physics, but is full of popular myths and misconceptions. One of the most bizarre ideas about the quantum Universe is […]
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Way back in 1965, the soon-to-be founder of Intel, Gordon Moore, published a paper predicting that the number of transistors that could fit on a computer chip would double every […]
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Fifty years ago at UCLA, the first message was sent over the predecessor to the internet.
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Going to smaller and smaller distance scales reveals more fundamental views of nature, which means if we can understand and describe the smallest scales, we can build our way to […]
A recent NIHR report found that students with previously low connectedness scores saw improvement in well-being and eased anxiety.
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Ezra Klein offers good reasons to take a skeptical look at automation apocalypse theories.
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A recent computer analysis found that millions of possible chemical compounds could be used to store genetic information. This begs the question — why DNA?
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