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As Nobel Prize winners gather this month to share their wisdom with younger researchers, Scientific American recalls some of the articles that Nobel laureates have published in our pages
One species of soil microbe makes unusually wise communal decisions
How will we know when we've built a sentient computer? By making it solve a simple puzzle
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