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How a Flawed Experiment “Proved” That Free Will Doesn’t Exist
It did no such thing—but the result has become conventional wisdom nevertheless
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Could Fruit Flies Reveal the Hidden Mechanisms of the Mind?
New understandings in neurobiology are emerging from experiments on Drosophila, raising hopes the tiny insect will aid insights into human cognition and dementia
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Long Live the Multiverse!
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Scientists Should Stop Naming Species after Awful People
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Galileo’s Big Mistake
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Did Life from Earth Escape the Solar System Eons Ago?
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Soft Skills in the Life Sciences
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We’re Incentivizing Bad Science
Current research trends resemble the early 21st century’s financial bubble
Mind the Mass Gap
Astronomers are getting closer to figuring out where the dividing line lies between neutron stars and black holes
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How to write numbers in a whole new way
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