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Decoding the Secrets of Superconductivity
...for Emergent Superconductivity at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Ronny Sutarto, left, Riccardo Comin and Feizhou He with the X-ray diffractometer at the Canadian Light Source that they used in their recent...
The Mutant Genes Behind the Black Death
...relatively innocuous stomach bug into a pandemic capable of killing off a large fraction of a continent. The most recent of these studies, published in June, found that the acquisition...
How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder
...— a law unto itself. But recent developments in nonequilibrium physics, complex systems science and information theory are challenging that view. Once we regard living things as agents performing a...
Scientists Seek to Update Evolution
...as the ultimate cause of everything in the body. But in recent years he had switched his thinking. He spoke of the genome not as a blueprint for life but...
A New Blast May Have Forged Cosmic Gold
...conclusion. Another team, led by Shawn Bishop at the Munich Technical University, still hopes to find radioactive plutonium on Earth from recent supernovas. In work now underway, his team is...
Fluid Tests Hint at Concrete Quantum Reality
...John Bush, a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has led several recent bouncing-droplet experiments. “The more things we understand and can provide a physical...
At Multiverse Impasse, a New Theory of Scale
...departure from long-standing assumptions about how elementary particles acquire their properties. But it has recently emerged as a common theme of numerous talks and papers by respected particle physicists. With...
Mental Leaps Cued by Memory’s Ripples
...occurred during a recent experience. These ripples are a strikingly synchronous neural symphony, the product of tens of thousands of cells firing over just 100 milliseconds. Any more activity than...
In Fake Universes, Evidence for String Theory
...mathematical mirage that has sidetracked a generation of physicists?” Greene had no answer, expressing doubt that string theory will “confront data” in his lifetime. Recently, however, some string theorists have...