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For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides

about 11 hours ago

For the very first time, biologists packed nonliving components into a cell-like...

What Breaks a Cell’s Ribs Can Make It Stronger

2 days ago

The cells of animals, plants, and fungi start their lives by being...

After 80 Years, Mathematicians Give Famed ‘Erdős Method’ an Upgrade

5 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?

6 days ago

What links certain mathematical models of traffic flow, shallow-water waves, and quantum...

How Physicists Track and Trap the Elusive Neutrino

7 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

9 days ago

For those who see the world as a dark place, the universe...

Why the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI

13 days ago

Since its molecular structure was deduced in the 1950s, DNA has been...

Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?

14 days ago

In 1992, mathematicians famously proved that seven “riffle shuffles” — the kind...

How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?

16 days ago

Every time I write about particle physics, I encounter a moment of...

Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself.

19 days ago

At this moment, a spacecraft is headed from Earth to Europa, an...

What’s the Future of Gene Editing?

20 days ago

One of the most surprising and remarkable discoveries in recent scientific history...

An Early Step on the Long, Strange Road to Photosynthesis

21 days ago

Every second, trillions of watts of solar energy — more than 10,000...