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"The Giant Leap," by astrobiologist Caleb Scharf, is an optimistic account of our widening journey into the cosmos.

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The ideas presented in George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan's The Neural Mind are fascinating, but the writing is far less ...

"Over the past 40 years, the field of microeconomics has gone through a revolution in real-world applications, yet the ...

A professor at the University of Cincinnati and his colleagues have figured out something two of America's most famous fictional physicists couldn't: how to theoretically produce subatomic particles ...

Abstract: Evolutionary algorithms have shown great successes in various real-world applications ranging in molecule to astronomy. As a mainstream evolutionary algorithm, differential evolution (DE) ...