Elon Musk pledged to give “every kid in America” one share in SpaceX, his rocketry and AI company, next year. He did not ...

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T HE YEARS since the second world war have been good to American science. The country’s researchers sent man to the moon, ...

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A t the annual gathering of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in Aberdeen on October 15th-17th it could have been 2014 ...

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Andrew Palmer, our Bartleby columnist, rounds up three research papers that caught his eye ...