The human brain is extremely complicated, but decades of careful neuroscientific research have revealed quite a bit about how it […]
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Einstein’s general theory of relativity, plus some reasonable assumptions about the universe and what it’s made of, has a remarkable
316 | Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper on the Big Bang and Before Read More
Every time you see an apple spontaneously break away from a tree, it falls downward. You therefore claim that there
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There are living creatures dwelling deep below the surface of the Earth, as deep as we are able to drill.
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Medical science is advancing at an astonishing rate. Today we talk with leading expert Eric Topol about two aspects of
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The germ theory of disease is a crowning achievement of science, up there with modern physics, continental drift, and evolution
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Questions about consciousness range from the precise and empirical — what neurons fire when I have some particular experience —
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