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Counterintuitive Statistics

Everyone relies on common sense and intuition to make decisions in life. Usually our intuition about a situation serves us well in decision making, allowing us to quickly reach decisions in complicated...

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Spaceships That Never Were

Since the inception of the U.S. space program there have been many novel launch vehicles and spaceships that were designed and seriously considered by NASA, but for one reason or another fell by the wayside....

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Boston University's Tiny Torsion Oscillator

A research group at Boston University recently published their successful measurement of the torque produced by a nano-scale motor less than a micron in size in Nature Nanotechnology. Although the motor's...

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Children with Autism are Insensitive to Biological Motion

We live our lives surrounded by motion. Some moving things - like a rattlesnake - are important and warrant close attention, while others - like the rustling of leaves in the wind - are trivial and can be...

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