278 | Kieran Healy on the Technology of Ranking People
We claim to love all of our children, friends, and students equally. But perhaps deep down you assign a ranking […]
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AMA | June 2024
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277 | Cumrun Vafa on the Universe According to String Theory
String theory, the current leading candidate for a theory of quantum gravity as well as other particles and forces, doesn’t
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276 | Gavin Schmidt on Measuring, Predicting, and Protecting our Climate
The Earth’s climate keeps changing, largely due to the effects of human activity, and we haven’t been doing enough to
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275 | Solo: Quantum Fields, Particles, Forces, and Symmetries
Publication week! Say hello to Quanta and Fields, the second volume of the planned three-volume series The Biggest Ideas in
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AMA | May 2024
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274 | Gizem Gumuskaya on Building Robots from Human Cells
Modern biology is advancing by leaps and bounds, not only in understanding how organisms work, but in learning how to
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273 | Stefanos Geroulanos on the Invention of Prehistory
Humanity itself might be the hardest thing for scientists to study fairly and accurately. Not only do we come to
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272 | Leslie Valiant on Learning and Educability in Computers and People
Science is enabled by the fact that the natural world exhibits predictability and regularity, at least to some extent. Scientists
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AMA | April 2024
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