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It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All

about 10 hours ago

Detecting a graviton — the hypothetical particle thought to carry the force...

Meet the Eukaryote, the First Cell to Get Organized

2 days ago

Three billion years ago, life on Earth was simple. Single-celled organisms ruled...

Computer Scientists Establish the Best Way to Traverse a Graph

5 days ago

If you’ve been making the same commute for a long time, you’ve...

Why Is It So Hard to Define a Species?

6 days ago

The “species” category is almost certainly the best known of all the...

How Do Merging Supermassive Black Holes Pass the Final Parsec?

7 days ago

Galaxies have been merging into ever-bigger structures over the course of cosmic...

Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan

9 days ago

One afternoon in January 2011, Hussein Mourtada leapt onto his desk and...

How the Human Brain Contends with the Strangeness of Zero

12 days ago

Around 2,500 years ago, Babylonian traders in Mesopotamia impressed two slanted wedges...

‘Quantum Memory’ Proves Exponentially Powerful

14 days ago

It’s not easy to study quantum systems — collections of particles that...

Major Advance on Simple-Sounding Math Problem Was a Century in the Making

19 days ago

EXCERPT: shows up on hp and article listings The post Major Advance...

Even a Single Bacterial Cell Can Sense the Seasons Changing

20 days ago

Though they live only a few hours before dividing, bacteria can anticipate...

How Can Math Help Beat Cancer?

20 days ago

When we think about medicine’s war on cancer, treatments such as surgery...

The ‘Beautiful Confusion’ of the First Billion Years Comes Into View

21 days ago

The galaxies were never supposed to be so bright. They were never...