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Physicists have devised a holographic model of “de Sitter space,” the term for a universe like ours, that could give us new clues about the origin of space and time.
A new proof shows why an uncountably infinite number of Möbius strips will never fit into a three-dimensional space.
Researchers hope that the genes of a glowing squid can illuminate how animals evolved organs for beneficial bacteria.
The new work promises to give researchers a better grip on the core mystery of quantum mechanics.
The brain can’t directly encode the passage of time, but recent work hints at a workaround for putting timestamps on memories of events.
In spite of their name, “imaginary” numbers are as real as any other numbers, especially when it comes to hunting for lost treasure.
A graduate student has helped illuminate a long-suspected connection between addition and multiplication.
If highly repetitive gene-regulating sequences in DNA are easily lost, that may explain why some adaptations evolve quickly and repeatedly.
Priyamvada Natarajan has pioneered the mapping and modeling of the universe’s invisible contents, especially dark matter and supermassive black holes.
In new computer experiments, artificial-intelligence algorithms can tell the future of chaotic systems.
Turbulence is everywhere, yet it is one of the most difficult concepts for physicists to understand.
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