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When Your Car Must Choose Who to Kill

You are in a self-driving car. It is careening down a narrow alleyway, sandwiched between a brick wall and a convenience store. A man exits the shop and pauses in front of the entrance to light a...
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Face Blindness in a Nutshell: Putting a Human Face on Prosopagnosia

Contemporary painter and photographer Chuck Close has displayed artwork at famed galleries around the world. He has published several books of his paintings and was an acting member of the President...
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Some practical ways to build public trust with your science

Science is about more than just running experiments. We researchers know this, but we can often feel out of our element when venturing outside the lab. Like many scientists, I’ve been trained to...
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The Physics of Free Will

You’re playing a game of pool. You line up your cue stick behind the cue ball. You practice your stroke…one…two…three… On the fourth stroke, you follow through and the cue stick makes contact. If we...
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A computer simulation of 3 black holes in close proximity, created as part of black hold reseach at Northwestern University
Astronomy Fugato: two approaches, one vast field of discovery
By: Shi Ye
Dec 18, 2017
Last week, my mother called from the other side of the Pacific Ocean. After chatting about the... Read More
Atomic Eyewitness: Illuminating the Battery Mystery
By: Fernando Castro
Nov 24, 2017
Lithium ion batteries are used in everything from cell phones to laptops (chances are you’re... Read More
The Million Dollar Problem: The Search for One Algorithm to Solve Them All
By: Anindya De
Oct 9, 2017
When then Senator Barack Obama visited Google in 2008, one of the questions he was asked was “what... Read More
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Finding Beauty in the Beast: A Tale of Naked Mole Rat Longevity
By: Danielle Fanslow
Nov 12, 2017
The key to youth and beauty may be found in one of the world’s ugliest critters, the naked mole rat. These... Read More
Changing Your Mind: The Science of Transplanting a Human Head
By: Austin Lim
Nov 5, 2017
In 1967, a surgeon in South Africa successfully carried out the first human heart transplant. Doctor... Read More
DIY Bio: To Hack or Not to Hack?
By: Han Teng Wong
Sep 23, 2017
As a molecular biology graduate student, I am often asked what I actually do at work. Badly explained, my... Read More
The Bacteria That Eat Methane
By: Alex Berr
Sep 16, 2017
What do cows, landfills, and petroleum extraction all have in common? Each produces methane, one of the... Read More
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