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art Recent Work

Virtual reality helps shape and respond to artistic impulses

In February 2020, weeks before the pandemic made such a thing nearly impossible, the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes, UK,…

December 2, 2022
Agriculture Features Physics Tech

Cold plasma and the farms of the future

Physicist Stephan Reuter of Polytechnique Montréal spends most days using his expertise in energy and matter to improve medical technologies.…

December 23, 2021December 23, 2021
computer science current events Features For Kids Tech

Rise of the botnets

Armies of zombie computers caused a lot of mayhem in 2018. In January, one cluster of infected, connected machines attacked…

February 23, 2019February 23, 2019
Features self-driving cars Tech

Can self-driving cars make roads safer and less congested?

Pedestrians in downtown Miami one weekday last November might have noticed something unusual about the blue Ford Fusions threading their…

February 22, 2019February 23, 2019
biology Features

Let the structural symphony begin

Like other structural biologists, Eva Nogales works in extraordinary times. The University of California, Berkeley, faculty member now has the…

August 23, 2016August 8, 2018
Features materials science Physics

‘Print’ almost anything

Imagine having a printer hooked up to your computer that could make anything. Tired of your toothbrush? No problem. Print…

May 2, 2013August 8, 2018
materials science Physics Recent Work Tech

Hot technology

Almost every device that needs energy also wastes energy. Cars get their zip by burning gasoline, but that process heats up the…

August 12, 2012August 8, 2018
Physics Recent Work

Agent Higgs game turns real particle hunt on its head

    As the world waits for the next installment of news in the hunt for the Higgs boson, a…

June 26, 2012August 8, 2018
For Kids Tech

Cars of the Future

We won't be driving the cars of the future; more likely, they'll be driving us. They'll park themselves, run on…

October 10, 2011August 8, 2018

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  • Looking for LUCA, everyone’s shared ancestor
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  • No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will kill us all
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  • Human-built ‘beaver’ dams help save struggling streams

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