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Yves Herman / Reuters Why Philosophers Are Obsessed With Brains in Jars
Preserved brains have had a mysterious appeal for decades.
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Wikimedia Commons 'Frankenstein' Reflects the Hopes and Fears of Every Scientific Era
The novel is usually considered a cautionary tale for science, but its cultural legacy is much more complicated.
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Youssef Boudlal / Reuters Musicians Are Wired to Steal Each Other's Work
The rules of Western music limit originality in songs—and the human brain doesn’t want it, anyway.
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ldambies / Shutterstock The Tyranny of Simple Explanations
The history of science has been distorted by a longstanding conviction that correct theories about nature are always the most elegant ones.
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boscorelli / Shutterstock How Quantum Mechanics Could Be Even Weirder
And what it could mean for the future of computing
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Michael Nicholson / Corbis Stop Calling the Babylonians Scientists
The ancient civilization may have tracked Jupiter using sophisticated methods, but their reasons for stargazing were very different than ours.
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Jorge Silva / Reuters Inside the Lab Where Invisibility Cloaks Are Made
Can science compete with magic?
