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Small amphibian collider
Art by immortal Abstruse Goose, poetry by @Yarbo 
Michio Kaku on artificial intelligence
Nowadays, it is fashionable to hypothesize that an advanced AI, when it appears, will wipe pathetic humans out of the face of the Earth (risk of unfriendly AI, as transhumanists like to call it). I think, what’s not taken into account in these considerations is that humans will evolve as well, will be willing to technologically upgrade themselves as well.
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How many scientists fabricate or falsify their research?
This is the title of a rather intriguing paper recently published in PLos ONE. As it turns out, approximately 72% of researchers have seen at least once how their colleagues used inappropriate or incorrect methods of research.
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An exoplanet near ultracool star
New record in astrometry and exoplanetology – the authors of 0906.0544 are talking about discovery of the planet in the vicinity of a very light star. The mass of the star is about 0.07 Solar masses, i.e., equivalent to 3-9 Jupiter masses – it is actually near the lower mass limit for an object to be called a star 
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Jim Simons and C.N. Yang interviewed by Bill Zimmerman
… about math (geometry)/physics interplay.
Yang: there are two types of modern math books – the ones which you cannot read beyond the first page and the ones which you cannot read beyond the first sentence. Stinrood is of the latter kind.
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