Limits
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Life in a Box
August 02, 2010
In Packing for Mars, Mary Roach reveals that space exploration is really an exploration of what it means to be human. In this exclusive excerpt, she talks with former cosmonauts about the psychological challenge of living in space.
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Yellow, Black, and Blues
February 15, 2010
A look at our agricultural past may explain why honey bees around the world began disappearing three years ago.
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The Outer Limits
December 15, 2009
For half a century computer performance has roughly doubled every two years, but the laws of physics place insurmountable barriers on how long this growth can occur.
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What Life Leaves Behind
November 09, 2009
The search for life beyond our pale blue dot is fraught with dashed hopes. Will the chemical and mineral fingerprints of Earthly organisms apply on other worlds?
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A Miniature Miscellany
November 05, 2009
In their newest collaboration, Felice Frankel and George Whitesides explore the nanoscale world, from molecules to quantum dots.
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At the Edge of Perception
October 15, 2009
Artist Luke Jerram's work explores the limits of science and art, challenging the boundaries of both.
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Reconciling an Ordinary World
July 29, 2009
Advances in materials and techniques bring physicists a step closer to observing the oddities of quantum behavior at the real-world scale.
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Inside the Mathematical Mind
July 21, 2009
Mariana Cook’s stunning portraits and narration from her subjects offers a candid look at the secret lives of mathematicians.
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Invoking the Magic of the Mind
June 25, 2009
Are secrets of the evolution of the mind to be found by imagining the ancestors of tool-wielding crows, or is such an approach strictly for the birds?
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Why We’re Not Obsolete
May 12, 2009
As scientific data accumulates, volume can overwhelm understanding. A new Cornell computer program is using the technological advances that created this data-understanding problem to help solve it.
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Voodoo That Scientists Do
February 24, 2009
When findings are debated online, as with a yet to be released paper that calls out the field of social neuroscience, who wins?
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Beyond a Theory of Everything
February 17, 2009
On the very large and very small versus the very, very complex.
complexity, limits, scale, theory, truth
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Scientific Truth in the Age of Wikipedia
February 09, 2009
Does the radical egalitarianism of the wiki undermine traditional notions of scientific authority and consensus?
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Footprint of the Fittest
December 15, 2008
Can we identify how cultures evolve — and if so, can we change our collective course for the good of the planet?
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
November 12, 2008
Werner Herzog goes to Antarctica in his ultimately optimistic documentary Encounters at the End of the World.
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The Statistical Universe
October 17, 2008
We look up to an expanse of sky that is billions of light-years in size, but the universe may be far larger than what we are able to see.
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Boxing with Shadows
October 15, 2008
The real marvel of the LHC is that, in a litter of subatomic debris, scientists know exactly what to look for.
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Camelot is Only a Model: Scientific Literacy in the 21st Century
September 21, 2007
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Scientific Literacy and the Habit of Discourse
September 21, 2007
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The Second Annual Seed Science Writing Contest
September 21, 2007
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Prime Numbers Get Hitched
March 26, 2006
In their search for patterns, mathematicians have uncovered unlikely connections between prime numbers and quantum physics. Will the subatomic world help reveal the elusive nature of the primes?
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Angelic Tibet
December 13, 2005
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