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Ingenious: Mazviita Chirimuuta

Color is a dance between your brain and the world.

July 12, 2019

Does Dark Matter Harbor Life?

An invisible civilization could be living right under your nose.

July 11, 2019

Spark of Science

What inspired the director of the National Science Foundation to go into science?

July 11, 2019

A Natural, Reviving Violence

A reflection on Marianne Moore’s “The Fish.”

July 10, 2019

A New Law to Describe Quantum Computing’s Rise?

Neven’s law states that quantum computers are improving at a “doubly exponential” rate. If it holds, quantum supremacy is around the corner.

July 10, 2019

Philosophers Debate New ‘Sonic Black Hole’ Discovery

Opinions differ about what recent measurements of a sound-trapping fluid reveal about light-trapping black holes.

July 10, 2019

How Randomness Can Make Math Easier

Randomness would seem to make a mathematical statement harder to prove. In fact, it often does the opposite.

July 10, 2019

It Takes a Village to Raise a Meerkat

What the rare cooperative species tells us about ourselves.

July 9, 2019

Six Degrees of Separation at Burning Man

What our experiment in the desert taught us about social networks and human cooperation.