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Scientists Analyzed 24,000 Chess Matches to Understand Cognition
Chess could perhaps be the ultimate window through which we might see how our mental powers shift during our lives.
To Save the Ocean We Need Less Talk, More Action
After helping the world’s largest pension fund divest from fossil fuels, Nina Jensen tackles the ocean’s problems.
Scientists Find Vital Genes Evolving in Genome’s Junkyard
Even genes essential for life can be caught in an evolutionary arms race that forces them to change or be replaced.
The Synchronicity of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung
How the theoretical physicist and analyst came together and then apart.
When Science Was the Best Show in America
The first US museum was devoted to truth and reason. Then the circus came to town.
Physicists Pin Down Nuclear Reaction From Moments After the Big Bang
The newly-measured rate of a key nuclear fusion process from the Big Bang matches the picture of the universe 380,000 years later.
Inside the Secret Math Society Known Simply as Nicolas Bourbaki
For almost a century, the anonymous members of Nicolas Bourbaki have written books intended as pure expressions of mathematical thought.
