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One free-wheeling 1930s cafe nurtured mathematical ideas including the theory of the nuclear bomb. That holds lessons for how to spur creative thought today.
US global dominance in science was no accident, but a product of a far-seeing partnership between public and private sectors to boost innovation and economic growth.
One century after Edwin Hubble revealed his astonishing discovery of a cosmos beyond the Milky Way, the most precise measurements still can’t agree on how fast galaxies are moving.
From strange beginnings, the 100-year-old Pauli exclusion principle has become a gift that keeps on giving for scientists who aim to understand the workings of matter.
The famed 1975 conference about a controversial genetic technology is feted as an example of how scientific self-regulation works. But more significant is what wasn’t discussed.
Quantum mechanics depicts a counter-intuitive reality in which the act of observation influences what is observed — and few can agree on what that means.