Why LEGO's New Death Star Set Has Caused a Great Disturbance in the Force

Star Wars’ IP helped turn LEGO into the world's most valuable toy company, but the company's first-ever $1,000 playset has ...
New Scientist

Mapping the structure of the brain doesn't fully explain its function

Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons ...

Rembrandt copied another artist’s canine for his famous ‘Night Watch’

A curator at Amsterdam's landmark Rijksmuseum has discovered more or less by accident that a dog in Rembrandt van Rijn’s famous “Night Watch” is a near-identical copy of a 1619 drawing by fellow Dutch ...
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How Eugenia Cheng Is Redefining What It Means To Be A Mathematician

Eugenia Cheng wears many hats: mathematician, pianist, professor, author and scientist-in-residence at The School of The Art ...