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Laser Physicists, Including Third Woman Ever, Win Physics Nobel
Three researchers shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for advances in laser physics. The winners include a woman for the first time in 55 years.
What’s Wrong with Bananas
How industrial agriculture stole sex from our most important fresh fruit crop.
Three Biochemists Win Chemistry Nobel for Directing Evolution
By using the power of evolution to solve practical problems, three researchers opened new avenues to chemical discovery.
We Need an FDA For Algorithms
UK mathematician Hannah Fry on the promise and danger of an AI world.
Blame It on the Bossa Nova: How Music Changes Our Perception of Touch
The sexier we perceive the music we are listening to, the more sensual we experience the contact—even if we know that we are touched by a robot instead of a person.
12 Mind-Bending Perceptual Illusions
They show us in a clear and unambiguous way that we don’t directly experience the world.
The Robot Economy Will Run on Blockchain
What finance will look like when it is controlled by machines.
Hitler and the Naming of the Shrew
When zoologists tried to change the words for bat and shrew, the Führer was not amused.
A Study on Meter and Rhyme
Language that is metrically regular to an unusual degree is not only found in poetry, but also in the language of rites and festive events, in preverbal infant-directed speech (IDS), in slogans, commercial ads, etc.
