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Flight of the Starlings: Watch This Eerie but Beautiful Phenomenon
We know a lot of factual information about the starling—its size and voice, where it lives, how it breeds and migrates—but what remains a mystery is how it flies in murmurations, or flocks, without colliding. Shot by Jan van IJken.
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Westworld Is Strikingly Real
AI Could Be Conscious and Unpredictable. By Cody Delistraty,
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Order from Chaos
Max Cooper. Video by Maxime Causeret
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The moment that changed Picasso
A short trip to an ancient village was the catalyst for a profound shift in Picasso’s work – but it is often overlooked. Alastair Sooke finds out more.
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Ecologists Offer New Explanation for Mysterious Namibian Fairy Circles
Footprints of the gods, not so much, but the grassland phenomenon is still pretty cool. By Michael Byrne.
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Robot swarm measures the motion of the ocean
Oceanographers dropped mini underwater drones off the coast of California and found they congregated like plankton. By Vishnu Varma.
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How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder
Life was long thought to obey its own set of rules. But as simple systems show signs of lifelike behavior, scientists are arguing about whether this apparent complexity is all a consequence of thermodynamics. By Philip Ball.
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Is Consciousness an Illusion?
For fifty years the philosopher Daniel Dennett has been engaged in a grand project of disenchantment of the human world, using science to free us from what he deems illusions—illusions that are difficult to dislodge because they are so natural. In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, his eighteenth book, Dennett presents a valuable and typically lucid synthesis of his worldview. By Thomas Nagel.
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Dreaming Outside Our Heads
Sooner or later any theory of consciousness must address this question: How can it be that during sleep, but very occasionally in waking moments too, we have experiences that have nothing to do with the world immediately around our bodies? By Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks.
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A Mind Made Out of Silk
Spiders appear to offload information processing tasks to their webs, leading some to suggest that a mind can be located outside of the head. By Joshua Sokol.
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How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation
The evolutionary biologist Jessica Flack seeks the computational rules that groups of organisms use to solve problems. By Joshua Sokol.
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The Strange Similarity of Neuron and Galaxy Networks
Your life’s memories could, in principle, be stored in the universe’s structure. By Franco Vazza, Alberto Feletti.
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First Support for a Physics Theory of Life
Take chemistry, add energy, get life. The first tests of Jeremy England’s provocative origin-of-life hypothesis are in, and they appear to show how order can arise from nothing. By Natalie Wolchover.
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The Parasite That Wires Plants Together
By draining the fluids from several hosts, dodder vines inadvertently allow plants to communicate with each other and share alarm signals. By Ed Yong.
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How to Solve the Biggest Mystery in Physics
Reductionism breaks the world into elementary building blocks. Emergence finds the simple laws that arise out of complexity. These two complementary ways of viewing the universe come together in modern theories of quantum gravity. By Robbert Dijkgraaf.
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Evolution Isn’t Always Slow. Sometimes It Happens Overnight
There are still people out there who don't believe in evolution, and frankly, we don't want to start that argument. Instead, we'd prefer to just point to those moments when natural selection made itself suddenly, dramatically known.
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Supercell Merger - 4k StormLapse
Chad Cowan
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Watch Corals Form a ‘Wall of Mouths’ to Catch and Eat Jellyfish
When your mouth is tiny, teamwork can help to take down enormous prey. By Christie Wilcox.
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Siphonophore
Deepsea Oddities
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Hive Mentalities
Bees evolved from wasp ancestors around 100 million years ago. Their shift to a vegetarian diet had a profound effect on the evolution of flowering plants. By Tim Flannery.
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