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LIGO Reports Second Black-Hole Merger

By Natalie Wolchover
June 15, 2016
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The spokesperson for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory called it “a promising start to mapping the populations of black holes in our universe.”

Abstractions blog

The Downside to Neanderthal DNA

By Emily Singer
June 14, 2016
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How interbreeding among early hominins harmed humans but may have slowed the Neanderthals’ decline.

Abstractions blog

A Glimpse Through a Cosmic Keyhole

By Natalie Wolchover
June 14, 2016
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What could cause galaxies millions of light years apart to all spew material in the same direction?

Abstractions blog

Have Physicists Discovered a New Boson?

By Jeanette Kazmierczak
June 14, 2016
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A group of little-known Hungarian physicists claim to have found a new fundamental particle. Now other researchers are raising questions about the team’s past work.

Q&A

An Explorer of Quantum Borderlands

By Maggie McKee
June 9, 2016
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Suchitra Sebastian’s searches for quantum anomalies have led to the potential discovery of a new building block of matter.

nuclear physics

Evidence of a ‘Fifth Force’ Faces Scrutiny

By Natalie Wolchover
June 7, 2016
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A lab in Hungary has reported an anomaly that could lead to a physics revolution. But even as excitement builds, closer scrutiny has unearthed a troubling backstory.

combinatorics

Simple Set Game Proof Stuns Mathematicians

By Erica Klarreich
May 31, 2016
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A new series of papers has settled a long-standing question related to the popular game in which players seek patterned sets of three cards.

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Insights puzzle

Solution: ‘A Random Place at the Table’

By Pradeep Mutalik
May 26, 2016
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Try these shortcuts for solving problems that seem to require a lengthy calculation.

Native Tibetans make use of a gene derived from Denisovans to stay healthy at high altitudes.
evolution

How Neanderthal DNA Helps Humanity

By Emily Singer
May 26, 2016
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Neanderthals and Denisovans may have endowed modern humans with genetic variants that helped them thrive in new environments.


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