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1 Super-Intelligent Humans Are Coming

Genetic engineering will one day create the smartest humans who have ever lived.
BY Stephen Hsu
2 Curiosity Depends on What You Already Know

We seek novelty, but not too much.
BY Zach St. George
3 Nothing Snowballs Online Like Fear

How online fear feeds political smear campaigns, stock market rumors, and ISIS propaganda.
BY Adrienne Berard
4 When You Listen to Music, You’re Never Alone

Technology hasn’t diminished the social quality of listening to music.
BY Daniel A. Gross
5 Ingenious: Hope Jahren

Meet the Lab Girl.
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6 Am I Ugly?

What science says about my outer beauty.
BY Chip Rowe

Science has a powerful voice in today’s culture.
So what is it saying?

Biology
Why Neuroscientists Need to Study the Crow

The animals of neuroscience research are an eclectic bunch, and for good reason. Different model organisms—like zebra fish larvae, C. elegans worms, fruit flies, and mice—give researchers…
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Biology
Ecologists Can’t Beat Invasive Species, So They’re Joining Them

The path to Ohe’o Gulch, in Maui, meanders through a short section of forest, past mango trees and pockets of bamboo, then opens onto the ocean. Palm trees of all sizes and varieties…
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Biology
What It Feels Like to Be an Octopus

On a recent Sunday, at my local Italian market, I considered the octopus. To eat the tentacle would be, in a way, like eating a brain—the eight arms of an octopus contain two-thirds of…
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Culture
The Secret of Our Evolutionary Success Is Faith

The staunch atheist and essayist Christopher Hitchens once said that “the most overrated of the virtues is faith.” It’s a reasonable conclusion if you believe, as the astrophysicist…
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