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Animals Bow to Their Mechanical Overlords
Robots are infiltrating insect, fish, and bird communities—and seizing control.
Einstein’s Lost Hypothesis
Is a third-act twist to nuclear energy at hand?
Our Nuclear Waste Is a Goldmine
Technology for generating power from spent uranium hits policy barriers.
Lavatory Laboratory
How sanitation is following the cell phone model.
Science Gets Down With Miles Davis and Bernini
Analyzing music and sculpture in the digital age.
What’s the Sound of Personhood?
Opening locked minds with music.
“Pop, Pop, Pop.” She Heard Her Brain in Action
Brain-computer interfaces are getting very sensitive.
Paper Versus Pixel
The science of reading shows that print and digital experiences are complementary.
The Box That Built the Modern World
How shipping containers made distance irrelevant.
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