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Einstein’s Parable of Quantum Insanity
...only their positions, but also their velocities and their masses. Armed with that information, classical mechanics predicts the system’s future evolution completely. Classical mechanics, given its broader concept of physical...
Networks Untangle Malaria’s Deadly Shuffle
...Research Council, The Gambia Unit, in Fajara. Caroline Buckee set out to track the evolutionary history of the deadly Plasmodium falciparum parasite. New evidence from Larremore and his collaborators, however,...
Solution: ‘Creating Art With Mathematics’
...puzzles. When we encounter situations that require a lot of representational complexity in our brains, such as a disordered scene or a messy problem, we are programmed by evolution to...
Solution: ‘Be Still My Pulsating Sequence’
...evolution has hard-wired Occam’s razor in our brains, and the gradual increase in the complexity of the universe from simple beginnings also makes such elegant patterns more likely in nature....
LIGO Reports Second Black-Hole Merger
...to gather statistics about the mysterious, invisible black holes that pervade the universe and influence the evolution of galaxies and the cosmos as a whole. Duncan Brown, LIGO member and...
Biologists Search for New Model Organisms
...what we would know if we had 700.” The candidate model organism Paryhyale hawaiensis is a crustacean used to study the evolution and design of body plans. Scientists have successfully...
A Drunkard’s Walk in Manhattan
...inextricable and essential aspect of our world. Combined with selection, randomness can do incredible things: It has powered evolution and created the entire biological world. Yet randomness is commonly underestimated...
A Seeker of Dark Matter’s Hidden Light
...continuous, ubiquitous pump of high-energy particles into the visible universe, it could have had pretty striking effects on the evolution of that dark universe. That’s not something that can be...
Colliding Black Holes Tell New Story of Stars
...of stellar remnants; how stars’ composition, mass and rotation affect their evolution; how their magnetic fields operate; and more. The work has just begun, but already LIGO’s first few detections...