“Come to the nerd side. We have pi.”
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Rapid Evolution in Real Time: On islands off the coast of Florida, scientists uncover swift adaptive changes among Carolina anole populations, whose habitats were disturbed by the introduction of another lizard species.
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“What I have to say about this book can be found inside the book.”
Einstein’s response to a New York Times reporter who asked Albert for a comment on his book, ‘The Evolution of Physics’.
How Is a Genius Different From a Really Smart Person?
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Our Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a rapid-fire “storm” of high-energy blasts from a highly magnetized neutron star, also called a magnetar, on Jan. 22, 2009:
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Only One Week Left to Enroll! – Bioinformatics: How to Analyze the Human Genome – SA/NYU Professional Learning Online Course. In this course students will learn relevant concepts in genomics as well as gain practical experience using Web-based tools to analyze DNA and protein sequences.
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Though Tesla Motors and SpaceX founder Elon Musk devoted his college years to some other institutions (that will go unnamed), dozens of MIT alumni have played key roles in advancing these two companies in recent years. Learn about twelve MIT talents who have helped propel his various ventures forward.
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Virtual Reaction: A computer simulation could predict antibiotic resistance.
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Still There: Researchers identify brain activity patterns that may indicate when an unresponsive patient is conscious.
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“Something is always far away… After all we hardly know our own depths.”
“Albert Einstein, one of the most imaginative thinkers in the history of physics, never believed black holes were real. His formulas allowed for their existence, but nature, he felt, would not permit such objects…”
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Snail Revival Raises Peer Review Debate: Rediscovery of a snail thought to be extinct has raised questions about the peer-review process that approved the publication of the extinction report.
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Astronauts Reid Wiseman and Barry Wilmore completed a #spacewalk today replacing a power
regulator & more.
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Rosetta Selflessly Beams Back Comet Selfie: A camera aboard ESA – European Space Agency’s Philae lander snapped this “selfie” of one of the Rosetta Mission spacecraft’s 52-foot-long (16-meter) solar arrays, with comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko hovering in the background some 10 miles (16 kilometers) away. Philae, which is connected to the Rosetta orbiter at this time, will make its descent to the surface of the comet on Nov. 12. Details:
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The Art of Following Up (Without Being Annoying)
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The Life of the Mind: Hannah Arendt on Thinking vs. Knowing and the Crucial Difference Between Truth and Meaning
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Mirrors May Not Be Enemies: New research shows that using mirrors to elicit aggressive behavior from animals may not be a fool-proof plan.
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Photo of the day: a sadhu in Kathmandu, captured by Ian Winstanley. For all their asceticism, the sadhus have a sense of style and a weakness for ornaments, not to mention shades.
“Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?” -Albert Einstein
“The Scottish novelist and artist Alasdair Gray once remarked that if the place you live in isn’t painted, if your voices aren’t heard on the radio and your people never appear in novels, then you may live there in real time but you don’t live there imaginatively.”
When it comes to the next Orbital Sciences Corporation’s commercial resupply trip to the International Space Station, students and space go together like the Cygnus spacecraft’s
docking to the orbiting laboratory.
Eyes on the Prize: A handful of stem cell therapeutics for vision disorders are showing promise in early-stage trials, and still more are in development. But there’s a long road to travel before patients see real benefit.
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Contributors
Meet some of the people featured in the October 2014 issue of The Scientist.
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Hubble Catches a Dusty Spiral in Virgo
This magnificent new image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4206, located about 70 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Virgo.
Meet the Real Alice: How the Story of Alice in Wonderland Was Born
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We’re collaborating with ISRO – Indian Space Research Organisation on a future Earth-observing mission & Mars exploration.
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Quantum Bits Compressed for the First Time
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India Spacecraft Successfully Arrives at Mars
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Study Finds Solar System’s Water Is Older Than the Sun
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Privyet, Elena Serova! Space Station Welcomes Its First Russian Woman
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John Steinbeck on the Creative Spirit and the Meaning of Life
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Octopus Cannibalism Captured for First Time
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How Superheroes Shave Themselves
How our brains work creatively
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Mark Twain arrived in England intending to poke fun in a spoof guidebook, but he was so charmed by the ordinary people he met that he abandoned the idea.
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We will probably never know what’s the point, but we can find meaning, and ourselves, through speaking and listening.”
A psychoanalyst answers our Big Question
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100 Ideas That Changed the Web
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Zadie Smith to Keynote 2014 Prize Ceremony
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US health officials scramble to prevent screw-ups at secure bio labs.
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