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Mathematicians Begin to Tame Wild ‘Sunflower’ Problem

By Kevin Hartnett
October 21, 2019
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A major advance toward solving the 60-year-old sunflower conjecture is shedding light on how order begins to appear as random systems grow in size.

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How the Neutrino’s Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big Mysteries

By Marcus Woo
October 15, 2019
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The KATRIN experiment is closing in on the mass of the neutrino, which could point to new laws of particle physics and shape theories of cosmology.

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Nobel Awarded for Lithium-Ion Batteries and Portable Power

By Jordana Cepelewicz +1 authors
John Rennie
October 9, 2019
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John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing lithium-ion batteries, “the hidden workhorses of the mobile era.”

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Physics Nobel Honors Early Universe and Exoplanet Discoveries

By Michael Moyer +1 authors
Natalie Wolchover
October 8, 2019
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The astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won half of the prize for their 1995 discovery of a Jupiter-like planet orbiting a nearby star. The cosmologist James Peebles won the other half for work exploring the structure of the universe.

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Nobel Prize Awarded for Discoveries on How Cells Adapt to Oxygen

By Jordana Cepelewicz
October 7, 2019
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The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine honored William Kaelin Jr., Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza for their work on elucidating how cells adjust to low oxygen levels.

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Your Brain Chooses What to Let You See

By Jordana Cepelewicz
September 30, 2019
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Beneath our awareness, the brain lets certain kinds of stimuli automatically capture our attention by lowering the priority of the rest.

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Computers and Humans ‘See’ Differently. Does It Matter?

By Kevin Hartnett
September 17, 2019
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In some ways, machine vision is superior to human vision. In other ways, it may never catch up.

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Origin-of-Life Study Points to Chemical Chimeras, Not RNA

By Jordana Cepelewicz
September 16, 2019
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Origin-of-life researchers have usually studied the potential of pure starting materials, but messy mixtures of chemicals may kick-start life more effectively.

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Physicists Finally Nail the Proton’s Size, and Hope Dies

By Natalie Wolchover
September 11, 2019
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A new measurement appears to have eliminated an anomaly that had captivated physicists for nearly a decade.


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