Limits
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A Miniature Miscellany
November 05, 2009
In their newest collaboration, Felice Frankel and George Whitesides explore the nanoscale world, meandering from molecules to quantum dots and pondering what science has in store for the future.
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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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Paul Steinhardt + Peter Galison
March 09, 2009
The physicist and the historian discuss the nature of truth as theoretical models of the universe become increasingly difficult to test.
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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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Prime Numbers Get Hitched
March 27, 2006
In their search for patterns, mathematicians have uncovered unlikely connections between prime numbers and quantum physics. Will the subatomic world help reveal the elusivenature of the primes?
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