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Physics

Muons and New Physics

Eduardo de Rafael

The muon was unexpected when observed in 1936. “Who ordered that?” Isidor Rabi asked. To this day, the muon still surprises physicists. It points to evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model.

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Logic

Löb’s Theorem and Curry’s Paradox

Graham Priest

If a sentence says of itself that it is true, or, in any case, provable, then there is a logical inconsistency when proving this statement. Martin Löb and Haskell Curry examined this question.

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Physics

Interstellar Overdrive

Paul Sutter

‘Oumuamua was the first known interstellar object to visit the solar system. Extraterrestrial tries to make the case for ‘Oumuamua as a lightsail spacecraft created by extraterrestrial intelligence.

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Biology

Giant Viruses and the Tree of Life

Patrick Forterre

When the first giant virus was discovered, it was misidentified as a bacterium because it was much larger than any known virus at that time. Ever since, biologists puzzle over how to classify them.

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Physics

Metallic Hydrogen

Isaac Silvera & Ranga Dias

For over eighty years, scientists have been trying to produce metallic hydrogen. In that process, diamond anvils must withstand pressures greater than those at the center of the earth—no mean feat.

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Medicine

Expertise Unheeded

George Scialabba

In responding to pandemics, members from the middle levels of the US government have tried, usually futilely, to get the appointees above them to do the right thing, or merely to pay attention.

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Anthropology

On Science and Civilisation in China

Shellen Wu

From the time the first volumes of Science and Civilisation in China were published in the 1950s, it forced the world to acknowledge early Chinese scientific and technological achievements.

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Biochemistry

In Memoriam: Dan Tawfik

Anthony Futerman

Dan Tawfik passed away in May 2021 at the age of sixty-five and yet at the height of his powers. He was a giant in the field of enzyme evolution and the study of de novo protein generation.

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Linguistics

On Aspects of the Theory of Syntax

Anna Maria Di Sciullo

In the first essay for a new series on landmark texts, Anna Maria Di Sciullo revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic Aspects on the Theory of Syntax.

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