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Famous Fluid Equations Are Incomplete
...linked? While Hilbert’s broader aim of axiomatizing physics remains unfulfilled, recent research has yielded an unexpected answer to the particle-fluid question. The Boltzmann equation does not translate into the Navier-Stokes...
At Tiny Scales, a Giant Burst on Tree of Life
...Find a different way of looking, and novel forms of life appear everywhere. A team of microbiologists based at the University of California, Berkeley, recently figured out one such new...
The Connoisseur of Number Sequences
...sequences. Recently, however, he’s had help processing the torrent of submissions he receives each year from all over the world: Since 2009 the collection has been run as a wiki,...
A Surprise Source of Life’s Code
...(red line). The surge around 800 million years ago corresponds to the time when earth emerged from its “snowball” phase, when the planet was almost completely frozen. The very recent...
The Case for Complex Dark Matter
...great precision, but they’re chock full of dark matter so you don’t have to worry as much about what’s going on with the stars. There have been recent observational studies...
Solution: ‘The Road Less Traveled’
...result. Sometimes you can achieve the same result using a single, seemingly magical calculation, and when that happens, it points to a deeper insight lurking inside the complexity. A recent...
Be Still My Pulsating Sequence
...for a while. A recent book titled “The Eureka Factor” by John Kounios and Mark Beeman, two of the leading researchers on this phenomenon, describes the multistage interplay between the...
Nature’s Critical Warning System
...which exhibit unambiguous critical transitions. In yeast cultures that are stabilized by multiple environmental influences at the same time, Gore’s team recently reported that signals of critical slowing down can...
Landmark Algorithm Breaks 30-Year Impasse
...announcing his graph isomorphism algorithm at the University of Chicago on November 10. In recent weeks, Babai gave four talks outlining his algorithm. It will take time for his new...