Category: Belief
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Science. Limitations. Belief in humans.
It's a hard pill to swallow, but if you're over 24 years of age you've already reached your peak in terms of your cognitive motor performance, according to a new study. In one of the first social science experiments to rest on big data, the researchers investigate when we start to experience an age-related decline…
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Stem cells, hoping, believing.
A scientist who has been trying to reproduce STAP cells—a new type of stem cells—and has been regularly blogging about his progress has given up. "I don’t think STAP cells exist and it will be a waste of manpower and research funding to carry on with this experiment any further," wrote Kenneth Ka-Ho Lee, an…
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We will know...
Neil deGrasse Tyson says: 'We will know whether there's life on other planets'. (1) OK. Let's for the sake of argument believe him. What stops us from saying "We will know whether God exists"? Or "We will know whether we can count to infinity". Or… "We will know whether we can know"? But wait! This…
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Science and Faith, two good friends...
If no human can check a proof of a theorem, does it really count as mathematics? That's the intriguing question raised by the latest computer-assisted proof. It is as large as the entire content of Wikipedia, making it unlikely that will ever be checked by a human being. "It might be that somehow we have…
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Supersymmetry, "multiple solutions", interpretations...
Squarks, selectrons and neutralinos may be lurking in the universe, say physicists who suggest supersymmetry — the idea that every known particle has a yet-to-be-discovered sister particle — is not dead, despite the lack of evidence found in its favor. The world's most powerful atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), has yet to find…
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