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Infographic showing the ranges of possible masses of WIMPs, axions, ultralight dark matter, sub-GeV dark matter and primordial black holes, which are five different candidates for dark matter.
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The Search for Dark Matter Is Dramatically Expanding

By Charlie Wood
November 23, 2020
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Physicists plan to leave no stone unturned, checking whether dark matter tickles different types of detectors, nudges starlight, warms planetary cores or even lodges in rocks.

Colorized micrograph of a cell’s nucleus, showing euchromatin and heterochromatin.
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Scientists Find Vital Genes Evolving in Genome’s Junkyard

By Viviane Callier
November 16, 2020
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Even genes essential for life can be caught in an evolutionary arms race that forces them to change or be replaced.

A pink beam at the center of a metallic experimental apparatus.
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Physicists Pin Down Nuclear Reaction From Moments After the Big Bang

By Thomas Lewton
November 11, 2020
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The newly-measured rate of a key nuclear fusion process from the Big Bang matches the picture of the universe 380,000 years later.

Black and white historical photo of eight men in front of a building, including Henri Cartan, André Weil and Szolem Mandelbrojt.
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Inside the Secret Math Society Known Simply as Nicolas Bourbaki

By Kevin Hartnett
November 9, 2020
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For almost a century, the anonymous members of Nicolas Bourbaki have written books intended as pure expressions of mathematical thought.

Spheres of three different sizes.
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Debate Erupts Over How ‘Forbidden’ Black Holes Grow

By Adam Mann
November 3, 2020
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Once missing in action, middleweight black holes have finally been detected. Now researchers are trying to figure out how they grow from small ones.

Fluorescent cross-section of a mouse’s brain.
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Brain Cell DNA Refolds Itself to Aid Memory Recall

By Elena Renken
November 2, 2020
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Researchers see structural changes in genetic material that allow memories to strengthen when remembered.

A visualization of the tower formed by the 3-adic numbers
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An Infinite Universe of Number Systems

By Kelsey Houston-Edwards
October 19, 2020
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The p-adics form an infinite collection of number systems based on prime numbers. They’re at the heart of modern number theory.

A pair of diamonds press from opposite directions against a black metal gasket containing a hydrogen-carbon-sulfur compound.
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Room-Temperature Superconductivity Claim Falls Apart [Update]

By Charlie Wood
October 14, 2020
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In 2020, researchers reported that they had created a room-temperature superconductor. That paper has now been retracted.

Cells being injected with a microneedle.
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Nobel Chemistry Prize Awarded for CRISPR ‘Genetic Scissors’

By Jordana Cepelewicz
October 7, 2020
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Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of CRISPR/Cas9 genetic editing.


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