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Science Matters, Tom Siegfried: Languages survive by evolving to be learnable - Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Over the years, the mysteriously rapid way in which humans learn language has given scientists a lot to talk about.



Science Matters, Tom Siegfried: Shining light through sun and Earth would make axion a powerful particle - Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Imagine what you could do if you could shine light through a wall. OK, maybe not much, unless you’re a stage magician. But suppose you could shine light all the way through the Earth. Now you’ve got a communication system that would make WiFi seem like tin cans and a string.



Science Matters, Tom Siegfried: Today’s fascinating universe faces a boring future - Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Seeking immortality, as many writers have warned, is not such a good idea. There are too many negatives. Your friends will all die, you’ll have to cope with global warming, and your Social Security payments will surely run out sooner or later.



Science Matters, Tom Siegfried: Physicist finds way to escape from a universe trapped in time - Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening all at once, as Woody Allen became famous for saying.



Science Matters, Tom Siegfried: Mystery of evolution’s origin may turn out to be a cosmic question - Thursday, March 15th, 2007

For evolution to produce complicated forms of life, offspring must resemble their parents.



Science Matters, Tom Siegfried: Experimenting with drugs reveals diversity of dangers - Thursday, March 1st, 2007

Experimenting with drugs is bad, of course — unless you have a control group and conduct a proper statistical analysis.



Science Matters, Tom Siegfried: Mental magic comes from molecules, not mushrooms - Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Not so long ago, college students used to think that the way to understanding the mind more deeply was with the famous hallucinogenic drug LSD. And maybe they were right.



Science Matters, Tom Siegfried: For safer cars and smarter robots, try insect mentality and slimy amoeba - Thursday, February 1st, 2007

Insects are not very good at avoiding collisions with cars.



Science Matters, Tom Siegfried: 2007’s anniversaries celebrate science’s celebrities - Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Before getting too deeply into the new year, it’s always a good idea to look ahead and prepare for remembrance of deserving events.



Science Matters, Tom Siegfried: Figuring out how brains became more important than brawn - Thursday, January 4th, 2007

Human brains are capable of amazing things, including, perhaps, figuring out why human brains are so capable.


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