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How Strange Twists in DNA Orchestrate Life
...shape and flexibility. “These experiments are going to stimulate a lot of thinking and rethinking, especially in the physics community,” said Wilma Olson, a biophysical chemist at Rutgers University in...
A Timely Fix for a Grand Theory of Nature
...ideas in ecology like neutral theory may be like the ideal gas law, an equation from physics that describes the general properties of gases very well. To make predictions about...
Solution: A Hat Trick + 1 of Hat Puzzles
...postdoc in physics at Kyushu University.) In this game, there are 10 contestants. As before, they are given instructions by the host and allowed to confer before the game. The...
A Random Place at the Table
...longer to fall down from the top of its flight back to its initial height? In high school physics, when students are asked to solve such problems, they are told...
Solution: ‘A Random Place at the Table’
...longer to fall down from the top of its flight back to its initial height? In high school physics, when students are asked to solve such problems, they are told...
New Insights Into How Zika Harms the Brain
...researchers feel is reasonable. Some are posting their work to preprint servers, a practice that, while common in fields like physics, has never taken off in biology. Preprint papers, like...
Three Puzzles Inspired by Ramanujan
...lives, and is finding applications in computer science, string theory, and the mathematical basis of black hole physics. A monthly puzzle celebrating the sudden insights and unexpected twists of scientific...
Solution: ‘Which Forecasts Are True?’
...as I’ve said before in these columns, is that physics of one or two particles is far simpler, and therefore far kinder to our mathematical models, than the highly messy...
How Life Turns Asymmetric
...view on this: Anything that’s not forbidden by the laws of physics is possible.” This article was reprinted on Wired.com. Scientists are uncovering how our bodies — and everything within...