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[:es]The Unique Neurology of the Sports Fan’s Brain[:]

Why we get off on the game—and are better off for it.
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[:es]The Spirit of the Inquisition Lives in Science[:]

What a 16th-century scientist can tell us about the fate of a physicist like David Bohm.
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[:es]Learning Chess at 40[:]

What I learned trying to keep up with my 4-year-old daughter at the royal game.
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[:es]What an Extinct Bird Re-Evolving Says About “Species”[:]

You may have heard the news of what sounds like a resurrection story on the small island of Aldabra, off the coast of Madagascar. Around 136,000 years ago, the island […]
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[:es]The Deepest Uncertainty[:]

When a hypothesis is neither true nor false.
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[:es]Why Water Is Weird[:]

What makes water behave anomalously is the presence of a particular arrangement of the water’s molecules
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[:es]Why the Flow of Time Is an Illusion[:]

Getting human feeling to match the math is an ultimate goal in physics.
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[:es]How to Get Close to a Black Hole[:]

Want to understand the most mysterious object in the universe? Make one at home.
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[:es]Empathy, Morality, Community, Culture—Apes Have It All[:]

Primatologist Frans de Waal takes exception with human exceptionalism.