Chemistry Nobel 2018: A sad reminder…
Techniques that put natural evolution on fast-forward to build new proteins in the lab have earned three scientists this year’s …
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Mapping the brain. But not your brain…
To map neurons, researchers currently use an electron microscope to take pictures — with one image usually containing a small …
Testability. The criterion for good theories. The death of modern humans.
Scientists are testing a theory of particles in a Weyl semimetal instead of testing it near a black hole. Because …
Chirality. Pasteur. Art, intuition and science…
Louis Pasteur, the 19th-century French chemist and biologist, prevented diseases, developing a process — widely known as pasteurization — for …
Science modelling: Can scientific models ever be “wrong”? A not-so-evident answer…
Can scientific models be falsifiable? Let’s read two stories of changes in scientific models and try to find out the …
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