How virtual reality tricks your brain

VR doesn’t need to look hyper-realistic for our brains to believe it. Watching someone play a game in virtual reality is a bit of a surreal experience in itself. They swing their arms around, turn their heads, and twist their bodies reacting to invisible cues all...

We put a 2020 time capsule inside DNA

As 2020 comes to a close, we look back on the big and small science stories of the year by building a digital time capsule. And we store our data using a remarkable new storage medium: synthetic...
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