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Deathblow Dealt to Dark Matter Disks
...— and sought to no avail in dozens of experiments. One enticing speculation to have emerged in recent years imagines that dark matter isn’t a single, monolithic thing. Rather, there...
What Bacteria Can Tell Us About Human Evolution
...own genes don’t necessarily tell us the whole story of our travels and migrations as a species or of the risks to our health. For that reason, in recent years,...
Earliest Black Hole Gives Rare Glimpse of Ancient Universe
...not part of the research team. Theorists have spent years learning how to bulk up a black hole in computer models, she said. Recent work suggests that these black holes...
Mathematicians Crack the Cursed Curve
...some intriguing new ideas from Minhyong Kim, a mathematician at the University of Oxford. As I explained in a recent article, Kim works in a highly abstract area of mathematics,...
Light-Triggered Genes Reveal the Hidden Workings of Memory
...center in the high-ceilinged lobby, flanked by a screen playing a looping rainbow-hued clip of recent research highlights. The man in the portrait, however, is anything but a spotlight-seeker. Most...
The End of the RNA World Is Near, Biochemists Argue
...time involving the coevolution of RNA and peptides — that they hope will shake the RNA world’s hold. Why RNA Was Insufficient Recent papers published in Biosystems and Molecular Biology...
In Praise of Simple Problems
...opinion, which is that mathematics is extremely good for highly symmetric objects. In a sense, mathematics is about miracles. A recent big example of this is the solution to the...
The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy
...energy in the community, and the recent progress is immense,” said physicist Jens Eisert of the Free University of Berlin. There is now talk of impending “quantum supremacy”: the moment...
Brainless Embryos Suggest Bioelectricity Guides Growth
...recent years, by working on tadpoles and other simple creatures, Levin’s laboratory has amassed evidence that the embryo is molded by bioelectrical signals, particularly ones that emanate from the young...