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He’s Gleaning the Design Rules of Life to Re-Create It
about 12 hours ago
Say you live in an old house, and you want to make...
Math’s ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’ Has Been Debunked
4 days ago
Much of mathematics is driven by intuition, by a deep-rooted sense of...
It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All
6 days ago
Detecting a graviton — the hypothetical particle thought to carry the force...
Meet the Eukaryote, the First Cell to Get Organized
8 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
11 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?
11 days ago
The “species” category is almost certainly the best known of all the...
How Do Merging Supermassive Black Holes Pass the Final Parsec?
13 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
15 days ago
One afternoon in January 2011, Hussein Mourtada leapt onto his desk and...
How the Human Brain Contends with the Strangeness of Zero
18 days ago
Around 2,500 years ago, Babylonian traders in Mesopotamia impressed two slanted wedges...
‘Quantum Memory’ Proves Exponentially Powerful
20 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
25 days ago
EXCERPT: shows up on hp and article listings The post Major Advance...
Even a Single Bacterial Cell Can Sense the Seasons Changing
25 days ago
Though they live only a few hours before dividing, bacteria can anticipate...