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Treading Softly in a Connected World
...complications, and Stanley, a professor of physics at Boston University, thinks he knows why. “Everything depends on everything else,” he said. Three years ago, Stanley and his colleagues discovered the...
Inside the Din, Cells Fight Noise With Noise
...least in comparison to human-engineered systems,” Elowitz said. “I was coming from physics, where people devise clever ways to reduce noise and even more clever ways to utilize noise to...
New Clues to How the Brain Maps Time
...beyond neuroscience and reaches into physics. Physicists consider space-time as a cohesive, four-dimensional entity, a fabric upon which the objects and events of the universe are embedded. “Neuroscience must converge...
Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life
...machines in the same way we understand the physics of explosives.” We haven’t solved every problem we face regarding biological behavior because we have yet to identify the actual, specific...
Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions
...areas of physics such as string theory. They form “a nexus where lots of different areas of mathematics come together,” Cohn said. “Something wonderful is happening, and I’d like to...
Mapping the Brain to Build Better Machines
...a different possibility. Cox’s team views the brain as a sort of physics engine, with existing physics models that it uses to simulate what the world should look like. Tai...
Scientists Seek to Update Evolution
...and of business as usual. After Galileo and Newton dragged physics out of its ancient errors in the 1600s, it rolled forward from one modest advance to the next until...
How Fast Is the Universe Really Expanding?
...I would actually like to pick your astrophysics brain if we could for a second because one of the things that I talked to Adam about is the issue of...
Physicists Attack Math’s $1,000,000 Question
...numbers.” As mathematicians have attacked the hypothesis from every angle, the problem has also migrated to physics. Since the 1940s, intriguing hints have arisen of a connection between the zeros...