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Does Theranos Mark the Peak of the Silicon Valley Bubble?
John Carreyrou talks to Nautilus about the lessons of a $1 billion fraud.
Are Suicide Bombings Really Driven by Ideology?
The surprising anthropology of group identity.
Why New Antibiotics Are So Hard to Find
A dispatch from the front lines of the war against antibiotic resistance.
The Popular Creation Story of Astronomy Is Wrong
The old tale about science versus the church is wide of the mark.
How Social Media Exploits Our Moral Emotions
Companies profit from the pleasure we feel in expressing righteous outrage.
Artificial Neural Nets Grow Brainlike Navigation Cells
Faced with a navigational challenge, neural networks spontaneously evolved units resembling the grid cells that help living animals find their way.
What Astronomers Are Learning From Gaia’s New Milky Way Map
A roundup of some of the most important discoveries gleaned so far from the Gaia space observatory’s new map of the galaxy.
