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This question was posed as part of New Scientist’s Last Word series, in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s ...

It was the type of question that Eric C. So had posed to his class for years. As a professor of behavioural economics at the ...

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The doughnut shape of the Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of a black hole has come under fire, but an independent check ...