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The Science of the Future of War

The new book by Malcom Potts and Thomas Hayden will be widely available December 1, and is currently available on Amazon. Hear more about the book from the authors in a Q&A with Wired.com. TODAY'S MOST BRUTAL WARS are also the most primal. They are fought with machetes in West Africa, with...

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Wired Science — November 21

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How Biology and Technology Shape Sex and War

Humans and chimps, our closest relatives, share a curious trait: We organize to kill members of our own species. A new book, Sex and War, delves into how the most intelligent apes on Earth, essentially alone in the animal kingdom, evolved the ability to organize for extreme violence. ...

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Wired Science — November 21

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New Longevity Drugs Poised to Tackle Diseases of Aging

Cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, heart disease: all have stubbornly resisted billions of dollars of research conducted by the world's finest minds. But they may finally all be defied by a single new class of drugs, a virtual cure for the diseases of aging. In labs across the country...

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Wired Science — November 21

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Ex-Hermaphroditic Strawberries Form Evolutionary "Missing Link"

Insight into the mystery of sexual difference has come from a strange place: hermaphroditic strawberries that evolved the ability to spawn single-sex offspring. Researchers documented how members of Fragaria virginiana become male or female depending on the combination of genes they inherit ...

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Wired Science — November 21

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Eye Flicker Explains "Enigma" Optical Illusion

Rapid, unconscious eye movements explain a famous optical illusion in which a still image appears to move. When the eye movements, called microsaccades, were suppressed, test subjects reported that the Enigma illusion — an illustration that seems to flicker and turn — remained s...

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Wired Science — November 21