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The Sudden Surges That Forge Evolutionary Trees
about 17 hours ago
Over the last half-billion years, squid, octopuses and their kin have evolved...
Astrophysicists Find No ‘Hair’ on Black Holes
1 day ago
According to Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the behavior of a...
‘Ten Martini’ Proof Uses Number Theory to Explain Quantum Fractals
4 days ago
In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel...
Busy Beaver Hunters Reach Numbers That Overwhelm Ordinary Math
7 days ago
Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6...
Do Beautiful Birds Have an Evolutionary Advantage?
8 days ago
Birds are not merely descendants of dinosaurs — they are dinosaurs. For...
The Pursuit of Life Where It Seems Unimaginable
9 days ago
When she was a kid, Karen Lloyd enjoyed mucking around along estuaries...
Quasicrystals Spill Secrets of Their Formation
11 days ago
Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled...
New Physics-Inspired Proof Probes the Borders of Disorder
14 days ago
The mystery was this: In the 1950s, a physicist at Bell Labs...
The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil.
16 days ago
Warning: This article includes snippets of AI-generated content that may offend some...
What Does It Mean To Be Thirsty?
18 days ago
Water is the most fundamental need for all life on Earth. Not...
‘It’s a Mess’: A Brain-Bending Trip to Quantum Theory’s 100th Birthday Party
21 days ago
“Happy 100th birthday, quantum mechanics!” a physicist bellowed into a microphone one...
How Can Math Protect Our Data?
22 days ago
Every time data travels — from smartphones to the cloud, or across...