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Unexpected ‘Germline’ Plant Cells May Shield New Generations
...out why. In recent years, Říha and other biologists have scrutinized how plants grow at the cellular level; some of the important details are unexpectedly murky. Even though the plants...
Why I Called It ‘Quantum Supremacy’
Researchers finally seem to have a quantum computer that can outperform a classical computer. But what does that really mean? A recent paper from Google’s quantum computing lab announced that...
Cosmic Triangles Open a Window to the Origin of Time
...like — until recently. In the past four years, a small group of researchers has approached the question in a new way. They have found that the form of the...
Sleeping Brain Waves Draw a Healthy Bath for Neurons
...The pattern repeats about three times a minute for the duration of non-REM sleep, the typically dreamless phases when your eyes remain still. In a recent study, researchers observed the...
Glial Brain Cells, Long in Neurons’ Shadow, Reveal Hidden Powers
...glial cells, mice pulled back their paws or guarded them while licking or shaking — responses specific to pain. This discovery is only one of many recent findings showing that...
The Animal Origins of Coronavirus and Flu
...targets to any airborne virus. Two recent studies of SARS-CoV-2 suggest that, like SARS-CoV, it uses ACE2 as a receptor. Any other zoonoses we should worry about? While it isn’t...
Why Do Matter Particles Come in Threes? A Physics Titan Weighs In.
...puzzle. Weinberg, who is 86 and a professor at the University of Texas, Austin, argued in a recent paper in the journal Physical Review D that an intriguing pattern in...
‘Milestone’ Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles
...first examples of a third particle kingdom. Anyons, as they’re known, don’t behave like either fermions or bosons; instead, their behavior is somewhere in the middle. In a recent paper...
Black Hole Paradoxes Reveal a Fundamental Link Between Energy and Order
...quantum jitter at the surfaces of black holes cause them to evaporate, slowly shrinking as they radiate heat. Black hole evaporation has informed quantum gravity research ever since. More recently,...