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A Path Less Taken to the Peak of the Math World
...of life, hints you might use to guide your hunt, but it’s still hard to anticipate what a new life-form might look like. A Partnership Grows In recent years Huh...
Planet Nine Is Put on Trial in Absentia
...discovered in a recent asteroid survey. The agreement between the data and simulations was “staggering,” Batygin said. “Not only were these Kuiper belt objects that are orbiting on their side...
Black-Hole Hunter Takes Aim at Einstein
...some four million suns, crammed into a space no wider than twice Pluto’s orbit in our solar system. In recent years, astronomers have come to agree that inside this region...
Shrinking Bat DNA and Elastic Genomes
...bat’s genome is derived from this fairly recent wave of transposons,” Feschotte said. “It raised a paradox because when we see an explosion of transposon activity, we’d predict an increase...
A Physicist Who Models ISIS and the Alt-Right
...rigid traditions or barriers between disciplines — and branched out. In recent years, the 55-year-old physicist has published research on financial markets, crowds, superconductivity, earthquake forecasting, light-matter interactions, bacterial photosynthesis,...
Bacteria Use Brainlike Bursts of Electricity to Communicate
...neuron, creating the electrical “action potentials” that carry information in the brain. Süel knew that bacteria also pump ions across their membranes, and several recent papers had reported spikes of...
Why Math Is the Best Way to Make Sense of the World
To tell truth from fiction, start with quantitative thinking, argues the mathematician Rebecca Goldin. When Rebecca Goldin spoke to a recent class of incoming freshmen at George Mason University, she...
Simple Bacteria Offer Clues to the Origins of Photosynthesis
...said. “But they weren’t doing a very good job of it.” In the researchers’ scenario, tightly bound quinone sites are a more recent adaptation, and today’s type I and type...
‘Crazy’ Supernova Looks Like a New Kind of Star Death
...Knowing the full spectrum of stellar fates is crucial for understanding galactic evolution. Yet recent findings like the one from Las Cumbres suggest that stars die in more ways than...