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Rising Seas Could Submerge the Oldest English Settlement in the Americas
Thousands of iconic archaeological sites in the United States could be imperiled by rising seas caused by climate change.
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A Letter to Einstein from the Future
Two Princeton physicists catch Albert up. By Steven Gubser, Frans Pretorius.
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The Wardenclyffe Tower
The Dream that Sank Tesla. By Francisco Doménech.
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Notebooks Now Online
Browse 570 Digitized Pages. By Josh Jones.
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Betty Shannon, Unsung Mathematical Genius
Her husband, Claude, helped create the computer revolution, but few knew that she was his closest collaborator
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Benjamin Franklin and His Son, Divided by Independence
A new dual biography tells how the American Revolution drove the Franklins apart. By Matthew C. Simpson.
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The World’s Most Dangerous Librarian Knew How to Build an Atomic Bomb
While dodging accusations of communism, Charlotte Serber made the nuclear bomb possible. By Michael Waters.
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The Most Important Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of
Clair Patterson determined the age of the Earth—and then he saved it. By Lucas Reilly.
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Scientists Think They're More Rational Than Other People
Researchers may have an overconfident view of their profession's objectivity
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Nicholas Sand, Chemist Who Sought to Bring LSD to the World, Dies at 75
Mr. Sand earned a reputation in the 1960s for making some of the purest LSD on the market, including Orange Sunshine, before the law finally caught up with him. By Williiam Grimes.
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Roger Penrose On Why Consciousness Does Not Compute
The emperor of physics defends his controversial theory of mind. By Steve Paulson.
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Astronomer and Alchemist Tycho Brahe Died Full of Gold
The shiny element was important to Renaissance scientists. Very important. By Kat Eschner. (Dec. 14, 2016)
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Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their peers'
Science is facing a "reproducibility crisis" as scientists fail to reproduce others' work, it is claimed.
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Meet Mary Somerville: The Brilliant Woman for Whom the Word “Scientist” Was Coined
How a Scottish polymath forever changed the course of gender in science and made a high art of connecting the seemingly disconnected. By Maria Popova.
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Harvard’s George J. Borjas
Adding up the cost of uncontrolled immigration. By Robert Verbuggen.
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The Time 19th-Century Paleontologists Punched It Out
Famous fossil hunter E. D. Cope got into a fistfight over a matter of tarnished honor. By Brian Switek.
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Piers Sellers, Space Shuttle Astronaut and NASA Climate Scientist, Dies at 61
Piers Sellers, a British-born climate scientist and NASA astronaut who launched on three space shuttle missions, died on Friday (Dec. 23). He was 61. By Robert Z. Pearlman.
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Marie Curie, Ambulance Driver: The Trailblazing Scientist’s Little-Known Humanitarian Heroism and Her Life-Saving Mobile X-Ray Units
How the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and her brilliant teenage daughter set out to mend the ugliness of war with ingenuity and sheer human courage.
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The Private Heisenberg and the Absent Bomb
When they were separated by Heisenberg’s scientific travels or the war itself, Elisabeth and Werner exchanged more than three hundred letters that survived the fighting. Both later wrote accounts of the war years, but their letters, filled with the worries and hopes of ordinary family life, offer a quieter, more intimate picture of the years when Heisenberg ran the program that was going nowhere. Husband and wife both knew that the German secret police were free to open and read their letters at will, and tried to avoid dangerous ground. By Thomas Powers.
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The Woman the Mercury Astronauts Couldn’t Do Without
Katherine Johnson negotiated the dynamics of both race and space. By Margot Lee Shetterly.
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