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Are Animal Experiments Justified?
A neuroscientist confronts his anguish over experimenting on animals.
A New Approach to Multiplication Opens the Door to Better Quantum Computers
In practice, quantum computers can’t run many programs that classical computers can, because they’re not allowed to selectively forget information. A new algorithm for multiplication shows a way around that problem.
Scientists Discover Nearly 200,000 Kinds of Ocean Viruses
New work raises the estimated diversity of viruses in the seas more than twelvefold and lays the groundwork for a better understanding of their impact on global nutrient cycles.
The Problem with the Way Scientists Study Reason
They overly rely on logic and philosophy, and neglect psychology’s more natural ally: biology.
Why the Flow of Time Is an Illusion
Getting human feeling to match the math is an ultimate goal in physics.