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NEW YORK Friday morning got off to an unusually exciting start here at Scientific American, as the prototype space shuttle Enterprise was flown up the Hudson River , and just past our office building at the intersection of Canal and Varick streets, en route to a landing at John F. Kennedy airport.
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Privacy through Uncertainty: Quantum Encryption
Pauli Spin State Space I was recently asked to comment for a BBC article whether quantum computing was just around the corner . Did I see quantum computers being here in 5 years
The Neuroscience of Habits: How They Form and How to Change Them [Excerpt]
Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business ( Random House, 2012 ) by Charles Duhigg [More]
The Consolation of Philosophy
Recently, as a result of my most recent book, A Universe from Nothing , I participated in a wide-ranging and in-depth interview for The Atlantic on questions ranging from the nature of nothing to the best way to encourage people to learn about the fascinating new results in cosmology
160 Video Cameras to Help Monitor Last 35 Javan Rhinos
Smile, you’re on endangered-species camera. The world’s last 35 Javan rhinoceroses ( Rhinoceros sondaicus ) are a little bit safer this week as 120 new camera traps have been installed in Ujung Kulon National Park , located on the western corner of the island of Java, in Indonesia
The Irrationality of Irrationality: The Paradox of Popular Psychology
In 1996, Lyle Brenner, Derek Koehler and Amos Tversky conducted a study involving students from San Jose State University and Stanford University. The researchers were interested in how people jump to conclusions based on limited information. Previous work by Tversky, Daniel Kahneman and other psychologists found that people are radically insensitive to both the quantity and quality of information that gives rise to impressions and intuitions, so the researchers knew, of course, that we humans don t do a particularly good job of weighing the pros and cons.
Certainty Principle: People Who Hold False Convictions Are Better at Retaining Corrected Information
Firm convictions dominate news headlines these days, but because of a phenomenon called the hypercorrection effect, strongly held ideas that turn out to be factually incorrect are actually easier to amend .
Much Ado about Nothing
Why is there something rather than nothing? This is one of those profound questions that is easy to ask but difficult to answer. For millennia humans simply said, “God did it”: a creator existed before the universe and brought it into existence out of nothing
Space Shuttle Swan Songs: Enterprise and Discovery Fly their Final Missions [Slide Show]
New Yorkers who look up today can catch a glimpse of history.
