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World View |
Space exploration is a team sport, not the preserve of a few powerful men
The lone genius narrative is harmful to science and will not help humans settle in space.
- Erika Nesvold
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Editorial |
A woman’s place is in science
11 February marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. We ask what it takes to be considered one.
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News & Views |
From ferromagnets to electoral instability
An electoral model predicts that polarized and alienated voters lead to unstable elections, like phase transitions in an Ising model. Such physics-inspired models may help political scientists devise electoral reforms to quench instability.
- Soren Jordan
Honesty is being put through the mill
Techno-optimism needs a reality check
The temptation of irrationality
A crash course in pandemic traffic