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Neither animal, plant, fungus nor familiar protozoan, a strange microbe that sits in its own “supra-kingdom” of life foretells incredible biodiversity yet to be discovered by new sequencing technologies.
Equations, like numbers, cannot always be split into simpler elements.
For 50 years, the astrophysicist Martin Rees has contributed to our understanding of cosmology. Now he is speaking up about the promise and potential dangers of the science and technology that will arrive over the next 50 years and beyond.
The Frauchiger-Renner thought experiment has shaken up the world of quantum foundations.
Simple physical principles can be used to describe how rivers grow everywhere from Florida to Mars.
Tadashi Tokieda discovers new physical phenomena by looking at the everyday world with the eyes of a child.
With proteins that reversibly self-assemble into droplets, cells may control their metabolism — and harden themselves against harsh conditions.
Quasars powered by supermassive black holes have been unexpectedly vanishing. Scientists have started to figure out why.
On November 16, 2018, more than 200 readers joined writers and editors from Quanta Magazine for a wide-ranging panel discussion that examined the newest ideas in fundamental physics, biology and mathematics research.
Puzzle solvers explored how evolution may have used negative and positive control mechanisms to shape the conflicting parental functions of reproduction and child rearing.
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