Stories by dnetesn

Asteroid 'time capsules' may help explain how life started on Earth

The Case for Making Cities Out of Wood

Taking lessons from the rise and fall of divinity in online games

Humans will actually react pretty well to news of alien life

Can You Ever Really Know an Extraterrestrial? (2014)

Researchers create first superatomic 2-D semiconductor

Waiting for the Robot Rembrandt

Ancient Artists Carved Camels in Saudi Desert’s Stone

The Case for Making Cities Out of Wood

Newly observed optical state could enable quantum computing with photons

Waiting for the Robot Rembrandt

The Cuttlefish, a Master of Camouflage, Reveals a New Trick

How We Make Gods: Lessons from the rise and fall of divinity in online games

The search for dark matter–axions have ever-fewer places to hide

Waiting for the Robot Rembrandt

Milky Way ties with neighbor in galactic arms race

Why We Procrastinate (2014)

Teaching robots to climb walls by mimicking the cockroach headbutt

The Quantum Mechanics of Fate (2015)

Breaking local symmetry–why water freezes but silica forms a glass