Scientific American
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Gone in 2015: Commemorating Ten Outstanding Women in Science
These notable researchers who passed away during the year just ending made key contributions to ecology, planetary science, medicine, chemical engineering, and more.
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Super Spiral Galaxies Amaze Astronomers
A new breed of giants raises questions about how the biggest galaxies arise
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Genio matemático resuelve el acertijo de un maestro
Terence Tao, ganador de la Medalla Fields, resuelve el problema de la discrepancia de Erdös.
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A Red Flag for a Neurodegenerative Disease That May Be Transmissible
Animal experiments show how a just-discovered prion triggers a rare Parkinson’s-like disease
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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