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RNA and peptides coevolving in the primordial world might have jointly served as a precursor to the modern ribosome.
Why verify every line of a proof, when just a few checks will do?
Synthetic biology experiments suggest a “MultiFate” model for how genetically identical cells become the many different types found in complex organisms like us.
“Ribbon concordance” will let mathematicians compare knots by linking them across four-dimensional space.
By resolving a paradox about light in a box, researchers hope to clarify the concept of energy in quantum theory.
The space telescope is one of the most ambitious scientific projects ever undertaken. Marcia Rieke and Nikole Lewis, two of the scientists leading JWST investigations, talk to Steven Strogatz about how it may transform our understanding of the universe.
In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope released a historic image of a supermassive black hole in another galaxy. The follow-up — an image of Sagittarius A* — shows it shimmering at the center of our own.
Finding out whether a question is too difficult to ever solve efficiently depends on figuring out just how hard it is. Researchers have now shown how to do that for a major class of problems.
Researchers say we’re on the cusp of “GoPro physics,” where a camera can point at an event and an algorithm can identify the underlying physics equation.
Researchers have mapped hundreds of semantic categories to the tiny bits of the cortex that represent them in our thoughts and perceptions. What they discovered might change our view of memory.
Mathematical magic can seem like mind reading. Your job is to reveal the secret behind these four tricks.
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