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Why Black Hole Interiors Grow (Almost) Forever
...stay a constant size as viewed from the outside, their interiors keep growing in volume essentially forever. How is this possible? In a series of recent papers and talks, the...
What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life
...tree of life just got another major branch. Researchers recently found a certain rare and mysterious microbe called a hemimastigote in a clump of Nova Scotian soil. Their subsequent analysis...
New Studies Rescue Gravitational-Wave Signal From the Noise
...a historic event in the history of physics.” Frans Pretorius, a gravitational-wave expert at Princeton University who was not involved in any of the recent studies, said that for more...
The Year in Biology
...interconnected or redundant that their full importance is hard to assess when considered on their own. The work lends support to a recent, radical proposal for an “omnigenic” model of...
Asteroid Rate Jumped in Solar System’s Past
...usual over the past few hundred million years. Earth’s history stretches for 4.5 billion years, but most large impact craters appear to have formed relatively recently. Still, geologists typically chalked...
Cryptography That Is Provably Secure
...manifest only in extreme “corner cases” — a perfect storm of unlikely events that reveals a critical vulnerability. Many of the most damaging hacking attacks in recent years have exploited...
Neuroscience Readies for a Showdown Over Consciousness Ideas
...of more than 50 leading neuroscientists, psychologists, cognitive scientists and others recently called for greater recognition of the importance of research on this difficult subject. “Theories of consciousness need to...
In Quantum Games, There’s No Way to Play the Odds
...elaborated on Bell’s setup, as I wrote in the recent article “The Universe’s Ultimate Complexity Revealed by Simple Quantum Games.” A 2016 paper by William Slofstra and a 2018 paper...
The Scientist Who Cooks Up the Skies of Faraway Worlds
...the astronomy community has been confronted with some high-profile cases of sexual harassment in recent years. You’ve been quite vocal about this. Is it something that weighs heavily on you?...