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What Did the Past Smell Like?
Get a whiff of a new sensory experience in history. -
Toys Are the Future of Philosophy
Playthings shouldn’t confine kids but allow them to ask, What if? -
How to Build Trust in Covid-19 Vaccines
Why people distrust vaccines and how they can be convinced otherwise. -
Physicists Nail Down the “Magic Number” That Shapes the Universe
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.As fundamental constants go, the speed of light, c, enjoys all the fame, yet c’s numerical value says nothing about nature; it differs depending on whether it’s measured in meters per second or miles per hour. The fine-structure constant, by contrast, has no dimensions or units. It’s a pure number […] -
The Problem with a New Study on Mentorship in Science
Arguably the best prescription to improve the situation facing women in science is for there to be more women in science.Oleg Golovnev / Shutterstock The increasing visibility of women in leadership roles is one of the few success stories in the struggle for equality in science. But a new study, which connects how often scientists’ […]
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Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV
Is memorizing a string of words a key to what makes the human brain unique?
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A Supermassive Lens on the Constants of Nature
What this year’s Nobel-winning discovery of the black hole at our galaxy’s center reveals.
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A Model for a Just COVID-19 Vaccination Program
The pandemic exposed racial injustice in healthcare. Vaccine distribution must not.
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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.
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The Synchronicity of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung
How the theoretical physicist and analyst came together and then apart.
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When Science Was the Best Show in America
The first US museum was devoted to truth and reason. Then the circus came to town. -
Five Scientists on the Heroes Who Changed Their Lives
Meet the inspiring people—none named Einstein—who helped these scientists find their calling. -
Do You Know These Scientific Pioneers?
10 great minds that should have been in your science textbooks.
