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Headset Hypocrisy

By the 2020 election, the market for virtual reality is projected to increase twentyfold. That's great news for VR's proponents who relish the technology's persuasive powers, but what does it mean for those inside the headset? 

John Tinnell

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The Death and Life of America's Waters

From the Great Lakes to the Flint River, we have devastated our waters through negligence, lethargy, and good intentions.

Meghan O’Gieblyn

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How Good Health Became a Numbers Game

It is no longer necessary to feel ill in order to be ill.

Christopher J. Phillips

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The Seed Vault Flooding Is Only the Start of Our Problems

Biodiversity should be maintained by using it, not by storing it under ice.

Jack Heinemann

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Making Chinese Officials Accountable, Blog by Blog

Despite the risks, Chinese social media users are beating online censorship.

Greg Distelhorst, Diana Fu, Yue Hou

Global Justice, Politics

Blood in Honduras, Silence in the United States

The U.S. turns a blind eye on the murder of environmentalist Berta Cáceres.

Lauren Carasik

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The End of the Beginning

The resolution of a tantalizing hint of new physics discovered last year.

Matthew Buckley

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What Lies Deep

The Higgs boson was just the beginning of what CERN might find.

Matthew Buckley

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Closing in on the Higgs

The history of false alarms leading up to the final discovery.

Matthew Buckley

Class & Inequality, Science & Nature

Unraveling the Silicon Valley Consensus

Startups aren't the magic bullet for economic growth.

Ben Armstrong

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When (Quantum) Worlds Collide

An inside look at the most powerful particle accelerator in the world.

Matthew Buckley

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Minding Matter

The quantum puzzle of mass.

Matthew Buckley

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How Stuff Works

Exploring particle physics. (Third in a series on experiments at CERN.)

Matthew Buckley

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