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Chemistry

Time Out

James Tour

Should researchers who study the origins of life take a time-out? James Tour says they should hit pause, in order to assess what they have accomplished, and what more is even possible to accomplish.

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Linguistics

The Siege of Paris

Robert Berwick & Noam Chomsky

In a response to Cedric Boeckx, Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky defend their view of the human language faculty as a species-specific property, with no known group differences and little variation.

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Mathematics

A Crisis of Identification

David Michael Roberts

Almost a decade after claiming a proof of the abc conjecture, Shinichi Mochizuki’s work is stil debated. David Michael Roberts examines efforts by Peter Scholze and Jacob Stix to resolve the impasse.

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Biology

Long Live Longevity

John Hewitt

Controlling the life cycle of the body and avoiding cellular senescence, John Hewitt argues, will require controlling the nervous system and mitochondria distributed by it.

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Philosophy

Past Masters of the Postmodern

Simon Blackburn

There is a widespread sense, Simon Blackburn observes, that a number of philosophical theories have escaped the academic world, and, in the wild, are doing great harm. Chief among them: postmodernism.

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Physics

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Édouard Brézin

Broken symmetries encompass a large number of different phenomena occurring at different scales. Édouard Brézin examines how symmetry has become central to understanding the organization of the universe.

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Economics

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One Euro, One Europe

Gilles Dryancour

Sixty-seven monetary unions were formed between 1918 and 2012. They all failed. Will the European monetary union meet a similar fate? Gilles Dryancour assesses the Euro’s prospects for survival.

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Physics

The Standard Model

Sheldon Lee Glashow

The third and final installment in Sheldon Lee Glashow’s history of physics. In this essay Glashow examines a development in which he played a key role, the formulation of the Standard Model.

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Biology

Many Little Lives

J. Scott Turner

Claude Bernard was the first to propose the concept of homeostasis. J. Scott Turner discusses the ongoing negotiation and mutual accommodation between parts of an organism—its many little lives.