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Is a Train-Wreck Looming for Social Psychology?
Daniel Kahneman sent an e-mail last week to a dozen social psychologists, spelling out what he sees as a...
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Black-Hole Laser Edges Closer to Testing Hawking
In a laboratory in Scotland, a revolutionary kind of laser is taking shape – the first one to be...
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Space Travel: Pioneer Anomaly Solved?
The 100 Year Spaceship Symposium, an international event advocating human expansion into other star systems, has some crucial hurdles...
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The Clothesline Paradox: A Conversation With Tim O’Reilly
If we’re going to get science policy right, it’s really important for us to study the economic benefit of...
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Haroche, Wineland Win Nobel Physics Prize
Serge Haroche of France and David J. Wineland of the U.S. shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for devising...
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Of the Creation Persuasion
From SciAm guest blogger Kyle Hill: The Earth is flat. A full moon leads to more crime. Humans were...
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How Order Arises From the Random Motion of Particles in the Cosmos
One of the unsolved mysteries of contemporary science is how highly organized structures can emerge from the random motion...
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Photon Reaches From Beyond the Grave in Quantum Trick
Albert Einstein mockingly called it “spooky action at a distance”: the finding that quantum particles can influence each other...
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With Limited Budgets, Pursuing Science Smartly
President Obama and his challenger, Mitt Romney, each responded at length to a question posed by ScienceDebate 2012 about...
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Switching Cause and Effect in the Quantum World
One of the most deeply rooted concepts in science and in our everyday life is causality; the idea that...