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Why Whales Got So Big

The first time I came face to face with a sea lion, I nearly screamed. I was snorkeling, and after a long time spent staring down at colorful corals, I looked up to see a gigantic bull, a couple of feet in front of my mask. Its eyes were opalescent.

Tesla has a problem and it’s not the model 3

Older Americans Are Hooked on Vitamins Despite Scarce Evidence They Work

Photonic communication comes to computer chips

Startup’s optoelectronic chips could reduce energy usage by up to 50 percent in data centers while increasing computing speeds.

Humans produce new brain cells throughout their lives, say researchers

Berkeley offers its fastest-growing course – data science – online for free

Redesigning the Scientific Paper

The scientific paper—the actual form of it—was one of the enabling inventions of modernity. Before it was developed in the 1600s, results were communicated privately in letters, ephemerally in lectures, or all at once in books. There was no public forum for incremental advances.

Urban Darwinism: How Species Are Evolving to Survive in Cities

Computer system transcribes words users “speak silently”

MIT researchers have developed a computer interface that can transcribe words that the user verbalizes internally but does not actually speak aloud.

What is good science?

Demanding that a theory is falsifiable or observable, without any subtlety, will hold science back. We need madcap ideas.