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1 Can Topology Prevent Another Financial Crash?
New regulations are applying network science to restructure global finance.
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3 Is This New Swim Stroke the Fastest Yet?
The surprising performance and physics of the fish kick.
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4 The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
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5 Selfishness Is Learned
We tend to be cooperative—unless we think too much.
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6 The Fly in the Primordial Soup
Hydrothermal vent models transform the origins of life from unlikely to near-inevitable.
BY Nathaniel Comfort
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2 Can Topology Prevent Another Financial Crash?
New regulations are applying network science to restructure global finance.
BY Bob Henderson -
3 The Fly in the Primordial Soup
Hydrothermal vent models transform the origins of life from unlikely to near-inevitable.
BY Nathaniel Comfort -
4 The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
BY Amanda Gefter -
5 When Good Waves Go Rogue
Even in calm seas, waves can become monsters.
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6 Fish School Us on Wind Power
Record-efficiency turbine farms are being inspired by sealife.
BY Alex Riley
Facts So Romantic
Science has a powerful voice in today’s culture.
So what is it saying?
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Matter
Our Solar System Would Be Weird Even If It Didn’t Harbor Life
What would our solar system look like if an alien were to spot it from another planet, orbiting a distant star? How improbable would it appear? For the first time in human history, thanks…
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Matter
Fireworks Displays Can’t Include a Perfect Red, White, and Blue
Mother Nature can be a handful when she wants to be,” says John Conkling, the former technical director of the American Pyrotechnics Association and a professor emeritus of chemistry…
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Matter
Listen to the LHC’s Weird, Whale-Like Sounds
To refer to the Large Hadron Collider merely as the world’s largest machine, or the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, would be to engage in prosaic understatement—the Collider…
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Biology
Alaska Is a Perfect Place for Birds to Spread Disease Worldwide
Last May, as wild birds from around the globe converged on Alaska’s western shores for the summer breeding season, local citizen scientists did, too. Armed with sterile polyester-tipped…
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