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Astronomy

A First Year of Discovery

Casey Papovich

As one of the scientists who will be using the James Webb Space Telescope, Casey Papovich examines how the Webb may answer deep questions about exoplanets and the formation of the first galaxies.

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Biology

Bacterial Swimming

Nicholas Taylor

Bacterial motility is powered by the rotation of its filaments, or flagella. Over the past fifty years, imaging advances have allowed the piecing together of the flagellar motor’s organization.

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Biology

Long Thoughts

Rufin VanRullen

Were consciousness to be updated only twice per second, as some claim, decisions would take place during an unconscious processing stage, meaning our free will might just be an illusion.

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Archaeology

A Mirror of Nature

Mike Edmunds

The Antikythera mechanism, an astronomical calculator found in a first-century BCE shipwreck, has proven to be mechanically more sophisticated than anything known from the subsequent millennium.

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Physics

Agents in the Ether

David Kordahl

In Imperial Science, Bruce Hunt details how the desire for quick communications across the British Empire, drove progress in the physical sciences towards a theory of the electromagnetic field.

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Physics

The Kilogram

Jeremy Bernstein

Prior to 2018, the standard for the kilogram was a platinum alloy cylinder created in 1889 and stored in Paris. In this note, Jeremy Bernstein explains how the kilogram is now defined using fundamental constants.

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Physics

The Quest for Fusion Energy

Daniel Jassby

Despite repeated claims that the prospects for commercialization have never looked brighter, the stark reality is that practical fusion-based electric power remains a very distant prospect.

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Physics

Before Before

Stanley Deser

More than most laymen, physicists are floored by the idea of the Big Bang. They are confounded also by the structures that govern the resulting universe. They know too much not to feel mystified.

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Archaeology

The Riddle of the Mountain

Edmund Richardson

For almost 2,000 years, the Behistun Inscription lay unread. Written in cuneiform, the inscription had “baffled for centuries the most learned men” until Henry Rawlinson set his mind to solving it.

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