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[:es]Pick the Statistic You Want to Be[:]

Understanding the odds lets you play with them.
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[:es]“Pop, Pop, Pop.” She Heard Her Brain in Action[:]

Brain-computer interfaces are opening new possibilities.
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[:es]How Einstein Lost His Bearings, and With Them, General Relativity[:]

By 1913, Albert Einstein had nearly completed general relativity. But a simple mistake set him on a tortured, two-year reconsideration of his theory. Today, mathematicians still grapple with the issues […]
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[:es]It’s Time to Make Human-Chimp Hybrids[:]

The humanzee is both scientifically possible and morally defensible.
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[:es]Why Women Choose Differently at Work[:]

Psychologist Susan Pinker on the role of choice in gender differences in the workplace.
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[:es]The Bitcoin Paradox[:]

Why cryptocurrency will always be political.
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[:es]Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know?[:]

Physicists know how to use quantum theory—your phone and computer give plenty of evidence of that. But knowing how to use it is a far cry from fully understanding the […]
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[:es]The Mate Selection Trapdoor[:]

Tracing the evolution of hidden sexual preferences.
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[:es]Darwin’s Lost Beetle Is Back[:]

It’s difficult to overstate the importance of finding an original Darwin specimen, collected during the Beagle’s first voyage. But finding it, and realizing it was a lost specimen collected by […]