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We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture.
about 12 hours ago
Thamires Lima, a research professor in chemical engineering at Drexel University, studies...
Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations?
1 day ago
Does intelligent life exist elsewhere in the universe? The question has captivated...
Is Life Just Different?
3 days ago
In 1993, a team led by the planetary scientist Carl Sagan tentatively...
Researchers Reveal the Power of ‘Quantum Proofs’
5 days ago
More than 30 years ago, researchers discovered that hypothetical computers based on...
Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe
9 days ago
When Charlotte Mason ponders cosmic mysteries, she likes to doodle. “I am...
For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides
10 days ago
For the very first time, biologists packed nonliving components into a cell-like...
What Breaks a Cell’s Ribs Can Make It Stronger
12 days ago
The cells of animals, plants, and fungi start their lives by being...
After 80 Years, Mathematicians Give Famed ‘Erdős Method’ an Upgrade
14 days ago
In 1947, Paul Erdős, the itinerant Hungarian mathematician, introduced what would become...
What Is the Positive Grassmannian and Why Does It Show Up Everywhere?
16 days ago
What links certain mathematical models of traffic flow, shallow-water waves, and quantum...
How Physicists Track and Trap the Elusive Neutrino
16 days ago
Seventy years ago, the physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines took a...
A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns
19 days ago
For those who see the world as a dark place, the universe...
Why the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI
23 days ago
Since its molecular structure was deduced in the 1950s, DNA has been...