Scientific American
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Dali’s reinterpretation of Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait
Some of the ways in which Dali made old art new, while preserving the original image in his reinterpretation.
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Can Your Brain Really Be “Full”?
Neuroimaging aids investigation into what happens in the brain when we try to remember information that’s very similar to what we already know
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The Brontosaurus Is Back
Decades after scientists decided that the famed dinosaur never actually existed, new research says the opposite
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How Henry Cavendish Used a Wire to Measure a Tiny Force of Gravity
The crowning achievement of the 18th-century researcher was the design of the first experiment to measure the force of gravity between masses in a lab
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A Spectacular Spiral May Encircle the Milky Way
One of our galaxy’s arms may do a full 360, upping the chances that our galactic home is a rare cosmic beauty
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Is the Blood of Ebola Survivors an Effective Treatment?
When the World Health Organization recently named blood transfusions from Ebola survivors as its priority experimental therapy for the disease ravaging west Africa there was only one major problem: no data […]
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DNA Can Survive Reentry from Space
Genetic blueprints attached to a rocket survived a short spaceflight and later passed on their biological instructions
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How People Make Summer Hotter
Researchers wired Madison, Wisc., to get a better grasp of the urban heat island effect
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Meteorite Bears Evidence of Magnetic Fields in Early Solar System
An ancient meteorite has now yielded the first physical evidence that intense magnetic fields played a major role in the birth of our solar system.