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测一测 你对科学新发现的了解有多少？（单选题）

WHAT DO YOU CONCIDER THE MOST INTERESTING RECENT SCIENTIFIC NEWS? WHAT MAKES IT IMPORTANT? Edge年度问题：你认为当前最重要的科学新发现是什么

01 HUMAN PROGRESS QUANTIFIED 量化人类所取得的进步

02 DOING MORE WITH LESS 事半功倍

03 THE “SPECIALNESS” OF HUMANITY 人类的“独一无二”

04 2015 REVIEW OF GLOBAL ECOLOGY 2015年全球生态评估报告

05 LEAKING, THINNING, SLIDING ICE 开裂、变薄、流动的冰川

06 GLACIERS 冰川

07 OUR COLLECTIVE BLIND SPOT 我们共同的盲点

08 THREE DE-CARBONIZING SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGHS 脱碳化的三个科学突破

09 JUICE 电流

10 A CALL TO ACTION 行动号召

11 A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE 21ST AND 22ND CENTURY 21世纪与22世纪之间的桥梁

12 TECHNOBIOPHILIC CITIES 技术生态城市

13 LENR COULD SUPPLANT FOSSIL FUELS 低能核反应可以替代化石燃料

14 EMOTIONS INFLUENCE ENVIRONMENTAL WELL-BEING 情绪影响环境

15 GLOBAL WARMING REDUX: A SERIOUS CHALLENGE TO OUR SPECIES 全球变暖再度来袭：人类面临严峻考验

16 BLUE MARBLE 2.0 蓝色星球2.0

17 HIGH-TECH STONE AGE 高科技石器时代

18 THE DEMATERIALIZATION OF CONSUMPTION 消费的去物质化

19 SCIENCE MADE THIS POSSIBLE 科学让梦想成真

20 THE BRAIN IS A STRANGE PLANET 大脑是一颗神奇的星球

21 THE ABDICATION OF SPACETIME 放弃时空

22 THE NEWS THAT WASN T THERE 还未发现的新闻

23 NO NEWS IS ASTOUNDING NEWS 没有什么大新闻

24 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF FAILURE 一百年的失败

25 HOPE BEYOND THE HIGGS BOSON 希格斯玻色子之后的希望

26 AN UNEXPECTED, HAUNTING SIGNAL 出乎意料而又令人难忘的信号

27 NEWS ABOUT HOW THE PHYSICAL WORLD OPERATES 关于物理世界如何运转的新闻

28 UNPUBLICIZED IMPLICATIONS OF HAWKING BLACK-HOLE EVAPORATION 黑洞蒸发理论的深层含义

29 THE ENERGY OF NOTHING 真空的能量

30 THE BIG BANG CANNOT BE WHAT WE THOUGHT IT WAS 宇宙大爆炸不是我们原来想象的那样

31 ANOMALIES 异常

32 LOOKING WHERE THE LIGHT ISN T 眺望光到不了的地方

33 SIMPLICITY 简单

34 THE LHC IS WORKING AT FULL ENERGY 大型强子对撞机正以全功率运行

35 NEW PROBES OF EINSTEIN S CURVED SPACETIME—AND BEYOND 打开爱因斯坦扭曲时空的新钥匙

36 SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES 超级黑洞

37 GIGANTIC BLACK HOLES AT THE CENTER OF GALAXIES 星系中央的超级黑洞

38 THE UNIVERSE IS INFINITE 无限的宇宙

39 ADVANCED LIGO AND ADVANCED VIRGO 升级版LIGO和升级版VIRGO

40 THE NEWS IS NOT THE NEWS 新闻并不是真正的新闻

41 WE KNOW ALL THE PARTICLES AND FORCES WE RE MADE OF 我们已经知道组成人类的所有粒子和力

42 COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY AND THE NATURE OF REALITY 计算复杂性与现实的本质

43 EINSTEIN WAS WRONG 爱因斯坦错了

44 REPLACING MAGIC WITH MECHANISM? 量子力学取代魔术？

45 QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT IS INDEPENDENT OF SPACE AND TIME 独立于时空的量子纠缠

46 BREAKTHROUGHS BECOME PART OF THE CULTURE 突破成为文化的一部分

47 SPACE EXPLORATION, NEW AND OLD 太空探索的过去与现在

48 PLUTO IS A BUMP IN THE ROAD 太空探索中的小坎：冥王星

49 PLUTO NOW, THEN ON TO 550 AU 已抵达冥王星，目标是550天文单位的远方

50 THE UNIVERSE SURPRISED US, CLOSE TO HOME 宇宙带给我们离家不远的惊喜

51 PROGRESS IN ROCKETRY 火箭技术的最新进展

52 THE SPACE AGE TAKES OFF … AND RETURNS TO EARTH AGAIN 太空时代重回发射-返回模式

53 HOW WIDELY SHOULD WE DRAW THE CIRCLE 探索该在哪里止步

54 A NEW ALGORITHM SHOWING WHAT COMPUTERS CAN AND CANNOT DO 体现计算机能力的新算法

55 DESIGNER HUMANS 定制人体

56 CELLULAR ALCHEMY 细胞炼金术

57 A TERRIBLE BEAUTY HAS BEEN BORN 潘多拉的盒子已经被打开

58 DNA PROGRAMMING 基因编辑

59 HUMAN CHIMERAS 人类嵌合体

60 THE RACE BETWEEN GENETIC MELTDOWN AND GERMLINE ENGINEERING 基因崩溃与生殖系工程之间的比赛

61 THE ONGOING BATTLES WITH PATHOGENS 与病原体的持续斗争

62 ANTIBIOTICS ARE DEAD; LONG LIVE ANTIBIOTICS 抗生素已死；抗生素万岁

63 THE 6 BILLION LETTERS OF OUR GENOME 人类基因组的60亿个字母

64 SYSTEMS MEDICINE 系统医学

65 GROWING A BRAIN IN A DISH 在培养皿中培育大脑

66 SELF-DRIVING GENES ARE COMING 自我驱动基因来临

67 LIFE DIVERGING 生命的岔路口

68 FUNDAMENTALLY NEWSWORTHY 最具报道价值的新闻

69 PALEO-DNA AND DE-EXTINCTION 古DNA与复活灭绝动物

70 THE WISDOM RACE IS HEATING UP 智慧竞赛正在升温

71 TABBY’S STAR 塔比星

72 EXTRATERRESTRIALS DON’T LAND ON EARTH! 外星人不会降临地球

73 WE ARE NOT UNIQUE, BUT WE ARE VERY MUCH ALONE 人类并不是唯一，但很孤单

74 BREAKTHROUGH LISTEN 突破聆听计划

75 LIFE IN THE MILKY WAY 银河系中的生命

76 THERE IS（ALREADY）LIFE ON MARS 火星上存在生命

77 THE BREATHTAKING FUTURE OF A CONNECTED WORLD 互联世界的惊人未来

78 EVERYTHING IS COMPUTATION 万物皆计算

79 IDENTIFYING THE PRINCIPLES, PERHAPS THE LAWS, OF INTELLIGENCE 为智慧确定原则，甚至规律

80 NEURO-NEWS 关于神经科学领域的重大新闻

81 MICROBIAL ATTRACTIONS 细菌的影响力

82 THE EPIDEMIC OF ABSENCE 缺乏所导致的传染病

83 BUGS R US 细菌反斗城

84 FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTS 粪便微生物移植

85 HI, GUYS 嗨，伙计们

86 THE AGE OF AWARENESS 意识时代

87 A LARGE-SCALE PERSONALITY RESEARCH METHOD 大规模个性研究方法

88 BIG DATA AND BETTER GOVERNMENT 大数据与更好的政府

89 THIS IS THE SCIENCE-NEWS ESSAY YOU WANT TO READ 这是一条合你胃口的科学新闻

90 THOSE ANNOYING ADS? THE HARBINGER OF GOOD THINGS TO COME 那些烦人的广告？预示着美好未来的到来

91 BIOLOGY VERSUS CHOICE 生物学与选择

92 HOW TO BE BAD TOGETHER 如何一起变坏

93 PSYCHOLOGY’S CRISIS 心理学领域面临的危机

94 THE TRUTHINESS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH 科学研究的真相

95 BLINDED BY DATA 被数据蒙蔽的双眼

96 THE EPISTEMIC TRAINWRECK OF SOFT-SIDE PSYCHOLOGY 来自软心理学的认知崩溃

97 SCIENCE ITSELF 科学本身

98 A COMPELLING EXPLANATION FOR SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT 科学不端行为日益严重的原因

99 SUB-PRIME SCIENCE 次级科学

100 THE INFANCY OF META-SCIENCE 元科学的萌芽

101 THE AGE OF VISIBLE THOUGHT 可视化思维时代

102 OUR CHANGING CONCEPTIONS OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN 人之所以为人的含义变迁

103 COMPLETE HEAD TRANSPLANTS 完整的头颅移植

104 THE EN-GENDERING OF GENIUS 天才的性别

105 DIVERSITY IN SCIENCE 科学的多样性

106 THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF SCIENCE 科学的民主化

107 NEWS ABOUT SCIENCE NEWS 关于科学新闻的新闻

108 THE BROADENING SCOPE OF SCIENCE 科学的范围正在不断扩大

109 Q-BIO 定量生物学

110 MATHEMATICS AND REALITY 数学与现实

111 SYNTHETIC LEARNING 人造学习

112 A GENUINE SCIENCE OF LEARNING 关于学习的真正科学

113 BAYESIAN PROGRAM LEARNING 贝叶斯程序学习

114 FSM（FECES-STANDARD MONEY） 粪便标准货币

115 THE IRONIES OF HIGHER ARITHMETIC 高等算术的讽刺

116 BROKE PEOPLE IGNORING $20 BILLS ON THE SIDEWALK 破产的人看不上人行道上的20美元钞票

117 WE FEAR THE WRONG THINGS 我们怕错了事情

118 THE HEALTHY DIET U-TURN 健康饮食的转变

119 FATTY FOODS ARE GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH 含脂食物对健康有益

120 COGNITIVE SCIENCE TRANSFORMS MORAL PHILOSOPHY 认知科学改变道德哲学

121 MORALITY IS MADE OF MEAT 道德来源于肉体

122 PEOPLE KILL BECAUSE IT’S THE RIGHT THING TO DO 人们制造暴力，因为这是正确的做法

123 INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL RESEARCH 跨学科社会研究

124 INTELLECTUAL CONVERGENCE 知识融合

125 WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY POWERED HUMAN EVOLUTION 武器技术推动了人类的进化

126 THE IMMUNE SYSTEM: A GRAND UNIFYING THEORY FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH 免疫系统：生物医学研究的大一统理论

127 HARNESSING OUR NATURAL DEFENSES AGAINST CANCER 利用我们的天然防御抵御癌症

128 CANCER DRUGS FOR BRAIN DISEASES 对大脑疾病有效的抗癌药物

129 THE MOST POWERFUL CARCINOGEN MAY BE ENTROPY 最强大的致癌物可能是熵

130 THE DECLINE OF CANCER 癌症的衰落

131 THE MATING CRISIS AMONG EDUCATED WOMEN 受过良好教育的女性面临性爱危机

132 THE MOST IMPORTANT X . . . Y . . . Z . . . 最重要的因素

133 THE MOTHER OF ALL ADDICTIONS 所有成瘾之母

134 THE TRUST METRIC 信任的尺度

135 OPTOGENETICS 光遗传学

136 THE STATE OF BRAIN SCIENCE 脑科学的现状

137 NOOTROPIC NEURAL NEWS 提高智商的神经学新闻

138 MEMORY IS A LABILE FABRICATION 记忆是不稳定的虚构

139 THE CONTINUALLY NEW YOU 不断进步的我们

140 TODDLERS CAN MASTER COMPUTERS 幼儿能掌握电脑

141 THE PREDICTIVE BRAIN 会预测的大脑

142 A NEW IMAGING TOOL 新的成像工具

143 SENSORS: ACCELERATING THE PACE OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY 传感器：加速科学探索的步伐

144 3D PRINTING IN THE MEDICAL FIELD 医学领域的3D打印

145 DEEP SCIENCE 深层次科学

146 PROGRAMMING REALITY 设计现实

147 POINTING IS A PREREQUISITE FOR LANGUAGE 指向手势催生了语言

148 MACRO-CRIMINAL NETWORKS 宏观犯罪网络

149 VIRTUAL REALITY GOES MAINSTREAM 虚拟现实成为主流

150 THE TWIN TIDES OF CHANGE 变化的两种趋势

151 IMAGING DEEP LEARNING 将深度学习成像

152 THE NEURAL NET RELOADED 人工神经网络技术重获新生

153 DIFFERENTIABLE PROGRAMMING 可微编程

154 DEEP LEARNING, SEMANTICS, AND SOCIETY 深度学习、语义学与社会

155 SEEING OUR CYBORG SELVES 半机械人的我们

156 THE REJECTION OF SCIENCE ITSELF 反科学

157 RE-THINKING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 重新审视人工智能

158 I, FOR ONE 我，其中之一

159 DATA SETS OVER ALGORITHMS 数据集比算法更重要

160 BIOLOGICAL MODELS OF MENTAL ILLNESS REFLECT ESSENTIALIST BIASES 精神疾病的生物学模型反映了本质主义的偏见

161 NEUROPREDICTION 神经网络预测技术

162 THE THIN LINE BETWEEN MENTAL ILLNESS AND MENTAL HEALTH 精神疾病与心理健康之间的小界线

163 THEODIVERSITY 宗教信仰的多样性

164 A SCIENCE OF THE CONSEQUENCES 关于结果的科学

165 INTERCONNECTEDNESS 互联性

166 EARLY LIFE ADVERSITY AND COLLECTIVE OUTCOMES 生命早期面临的困境及其对集体的影响

167 WE’RE STILL BEHIND 我们仍然很落后

168 NEURAL HACKING, HANDPRINTS, AND THE EMPATHY DEFICIT 神经网络攻击，手印以及同情心的缺失

169 SEND IN THE DRONES 放飞无人机

170 THAT DRESS 是蓝黑色还是白金色

171 ANTHROPIC CAPITALISM AND THE NEW GIMMICK ECONOMY 人为资本主义与噱头经济

172 THE ORIGIN OF EUROPEANS 欧洲人的起源

173 THE PLATINUM RULE: DENSE, HEAVY, BUT WORTH IT 白金法则：很难遵守，但值得

174 ADJUSTING TO FEATHERED DINOSAURS 适应长有羽毛的恐龙

175 PEOPLE ARE ANIMALS 人类也是动物

176 THE LONGEVITY OF NEWS 新闻的时效性

177 WEATHER PREDICTION HAS QUIETLY GOTTEN BETTER 天气预报的准确度越来越高

178 THE WORD: FIRST AS ART, THEN AS SCIENCE 语言：始于艺术，归于科学

179 THE CONVERGENCE OF IMAGES AND TECHNOLOGY 图像和技术的融合

180 THE MINDFUL MEETING OF MINDS 思想的有效交融

181 CARPE DIEM 把握当下

182 LINKING THE LEVELS OF HUMAN VARIATION 在人类变化的水平之间建立联系

183 CHALLENGING THE VALUE OF A UNIVERSITY EDUCATION 挑战大学教育的价值

184 THE HERMENEUTIC HYPERCYCLE 解释学超循环

185 RETHINKING AUTHORITY WITH THE BLOCKCHAIN CRYPTO ENLIGHTENMENT 透过区块链加密技术重新审视权威性

186 ENVOI: WE MAY ALL DIE HORRIBLY 结尾：我们可能都会悲惨地死去

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