Scientific American - September 2018

September 2018, ScientificAmerican.com 79 Weapons are also evidence of war, but these arti- facts may not be what they seem. I u ...

80 Scientific American, September 2018 WHY DID IT HAPPEN? THE PRECONDITIONS THAT MAKE war more likely include a shift to a more ...

September 2018, ScientificAmerican.com 81 ue peace and stigmatize killing; and recognized means for conflict resolution. These m ...

82 Scientific American, September 2018 DA RW I N IN THE CITY      S     :: ILLUSTRATION BY ARMANDO VEVE HUMANS ...

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84 Scientific American, September 2018 Such accidental similarities between urban and natural environments are attracting more f ...

September 2018, ScientificAmerican.com 85 Why yellow? The answer has to do with the heat island effect. Cit- ies tend to be hott ...

86 Scientific American, September 2018 thrown tradition to the wind because the lights at- tract insects. In the 1990s Austrian ...

September 2018, ScientificAmerican.com 87 creatures can even overcome the seemingly insur- mountable obstacle of heavy toxic pol ...

88 Scientific American, September 2018 OUR DIGITAL DOUBLES AI WILL SERVE OUR SPECIES, NOT CONTROL IT    S :: ILLUS ...

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90 Scientific American, September 2018 Machine learning started in the 1950s with the work of pioneering scientists such as Fran ...

September 2018, ScientificAmerican.com 91 its strengths and weaknesses. Deep learning, for ex- ample, is good for perceptual pro ...

92 Scientific American, September 2018 <5'2B?!'<% '3 '%2 computer models of us will become so good that they w ...

September 2018, ScientificAmerican.com 93 the French might say—“look to the human”). So your data bank’s first duty will be to e ...

94 Scientific American, September 2018 ALONE IN THE MILKY WAY       :: ILLUSTRATION BY ARMANDO VEVE WHY WE ARE PROB ...

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96 Scientific American, September 2018 It could. Optimism about the possibilities of in- telligent extraterrestrial life ignores ...

September 2018, ScientificAmerican.com 97 Big bang (13.8 billion years ago) Star formation begins (13 billion years ago) Slow bu ...

98 Scientific American, September 2018 to a very large black hole, Sagittarius A*, which pro- duces intense outbursts of radiati ...