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New Scientist
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How Do You Ticket a Driverless Car?
You may be allowed to text while outside the car, but you can’t “drive” drunk.
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What’s More Dangerous: Biology or Synthetic Biology?
The latest applications made by engineering living things.
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Specialist Knowledge Is Useless and Unhelpful
When data prediction is a game, the experts lose out.
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Risking Life and Libel Suits To Expose Fraud
The blogger who uncovers plagiarism, false claims, and faked research in China.
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Were Prehistoric Statues Pornographic?
Our interpretations say more about modern sexism than life in the Paleolithic.
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Oliver Sacks Wants To Destigmatize Hallucinations
They’re surprisingly common, and they don’t necessarily mean madness.
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Getting a Global Second Opinion
A digital artist with a brain tumor posts his medical records online.
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Tigers Need Tourist Traps
The best protection many endangered species have is tourism dollars.
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What Does It Feel Like To Win a Nobel Prize?
Memorable quotes from this year’s winners.
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Science’s Fantasy Island
Why a biologist with big bucks established a research base off the coast of Canada.
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Democratize Astronomy Now!
Why every country in Africa should have a research telescope.
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The Brains Behind the Eyes on Mars
What are the Mars Curiosity rover’s cameras looking for?
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Floating Cities? Bon Voyage, Rich Libertarians.
Seasteads will be communes for the wealthy.
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Do You Really Want To Know Your Baby’s Genetics?
New prenatal testing will bring anxiety and dilemmas.
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You Think 2012 Is Hot? Wait Until 2013.
Barring a volcanic eruption, next year will set records. But don’t blame El Niño.
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Grow Your Own Energy
A NASA-backed experiment harvests algae for oil, releases fresh water.
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New Biology Unites Strange Political Bedfellows
Are three-parent embryos a conservative or liberal issue?
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Sounds Like a Fun Job: Corporate Futurist
Telling plausible, provocative, fictional stories that are based on facts.
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Comic Artist Raises More Than $1 Million for Tesla Museum
It took him just six days to meet his goal.
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So You’re Going to Mine Asteroids? Oh, Really.
How Google billionaires invest their spare cash.
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The Pioneer Anomaly Is Solved
Two long-distance spaceships slowed down mysteriously. An astrophysicist figured out why.
