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Did a Jurassic Dinosaur Smoosh a Turtle?
A smashed shell may have been crumpled by an ambling dinosaur
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The Darker Side of John Wesley Powell
Like other early American geologists, the man who explored the Colorado River did anthropological research that presupposed the racial inferiority of Native Americans
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It’s Raining on the Sun
Structures in the corona called “null-point topologies” may help solve two long-standing solar mysteries
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The Surgical Singularity Is Approaching
AI-powered robots may soon be doing some procedures faster, more accurately and with fewer complications than humans
Is Smart Technology Making Us Dumb?
Yes and no: there are reasonable arguments on both sides of the question
How Big Data Can Help in Disaster Response
Technology is enabling better management of risks and crises
The Rise of Knowledge Economics
What is knowledge? How does it disseminate? And what’s its value?
How Personalization Leads to Homogeneity
Tech companies are perpetuating a bleak view of humans as programmable cogs
Can We Avoid the Potential Dangers of AI, Robots and Big Tech Companies?
We can if we’re proactive enough about anticipating what could go wrong
How to Vaccinate a Wild Bat
A new technology could make it much easier to fight deadly white-nose syndrome
Can AI Create True Art?
And if it can, what are the implications for the future of creativity?
How to Engineer Biology
Billion-dollar bridges rarely fail—whereas billion-dollar drug failures are routine
How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Can Revolutionize Science
An upcoming “hackathon” is designed to accelerate their use in scientific visualization
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