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Physics

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The Dark Matter Enigma

Jean-Pierre Luminet

Unveiling the nature of dark matter is one of the biggest challenges in astrophysics. Jean-Pierre Luminet confronts the many unresolved questions that obscure this perplexing aspect of our universe.

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Physics

Cosmology without Design

Lawrence Krauss

Does the remarkable fit between living things and their environment suggest that life was designed by an intelligent creator? Lawrence Krauss argues that such an inference is not well founded.

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Political Science

Disinformed

Adam Garfinkle

Deepfakes create an illusion of reality more convincing than any produced in the past. Now is a time in which the line between reality and spectacle have already been blurred, Adam Garfinkle argues.

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Biology

Mathematical Virology

Reidun Twarock

Models of viral geometry help explain how viruses spread and evolve, and can point the way to novel antiviral solutions. Reidun Twarock shares her work on the icosahedral symmetry of virus casings.

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Black Holes and Quantum Gravity

Aurélien Barrau

The search for a quantum theory of gravitation is seen as one of the most difficult and important problems in theoretical physics. Might black holes provide a key? Aurélien Barrau makes their case.

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Linguistics

Babbling Birds

Riny Huybregts

At first sight, the chestnut-crowned babbler’s capacity to communicate seems comparable to the way humans form words from phonemes. Should this claim be taken seriously, or is this one for the birds?

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Linguistics

The Arabic Grammatical Tradition

Kees Versteegh

In large parts of the Islamic world, children are taught Classical Arabic, which can differ greatly from their local dialect. Kees Versteegh recounts the history of teaching Classical Arabic grammar.

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Physics

Between Two Evils

Mikhail Shifman

When scientists fled to the USSR to escape Nazism, the Western press followed in detail with the information at hand. But the reality was much worse than they could have imagined.

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Linguistics

Talk Is Cheap

Iris Berent

Speech and language are so tightly linked that they are often considered inseparable. But what of sign language? Iris Berent sheds some light on this oft-neglected branch of linguistics.

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