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Where Did We Go Wrong?
Who, or what, is conscious? How can we decide? Where in nature do we find consciousness? This can seem...
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Astrophysics: Time for an Arab Astronomy Renaissance
Islamic astronomy enjoyed a golden age from the ninth to the sixteenth century AD. Great observatories in Baghdad, Damascus,...
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New Physics Complications Lend Support to Multiverse Hypothesis
On an overcast afternoon in late April, physics professors and students crowded into a wood-paneled lecture hall at Columbia...
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The Most Astounding Fact – Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, “What is the most astounding fact...
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How Much Consciousness Does an iPhone Have?
What has more consciousness: a puppy or a baby? An iPhone 5 or an octopus? For a long time,...
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Funny Things Happen When Space And Time Vanish
Of the many mysteries of modern physics, few compare to “nonlocality” in quantum physics. Nonlocality means that far away...
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Are There Really as Many Neurons in the Human Brain as Stars in the Milky Way?
This is a phrase a lot of science communicators like to use because giving people a sense of scale...
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Waiting for the Revolution
In the early 1970s, David J. Gross exposed the hidden structure of the atomic nucleus. He helped to reinvent...
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What Neurons Look Like (as Drawn by Students, Grad Students, and Professors)
What would you draw if somebody told you to draw a neuron? According to a new study, your sketch...
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How to test Weinstein’s provocative theory of everything
Physicists have a problem, and they will be the first to admit it. The two mathematical frameworks that govern...