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What We're Reading
September 22
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Baby Girls’ Greater Interest in Faces Offers Clue to Nature v Nurture Debate, The Guardian
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Scientists Observe Einstein’s Gravity in the Quantum World, University of Oxford
An international team including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Sir Roger Penrose has observed a long-predicted effect of gravity on a falling quantum object for the first time.
3
Will We Ever Know How Life Began?, Scientific American
Scientists disagree on how biology got started and on whether we can ever know for sure.
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Quanta’s Thomas Lin Trusts the Public Can Handle Complex Ideas
The founding editor built a math and science magazine that high schoolers and Nobel laureates alike read. Now, he’s turned to books.