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No Dark Energy? No Chance, Cosmologists Contend
...it came as a surprise when a recent paper published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics questioned whether it’s there at all. The four authors, including the Oxford physicist Subir...
Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Snowflakes
...recent essay on snowflake physics. As each crystal submits to the chaos of a cloud, they all take on slightly different forms, she explains. The earliest recorded musings on these...
The Year in Biology
...as is commonly supposed, but it was not the only one. In recent years, researchers have seen other natural examples of cells in tissues seemingly committing themselves to dying —...
Hidden Computational Power Found in the Arms of Neurons
...in the recent work. It may also prompt some computer scientists to reappraise strategies for artificial neural networks, which have traditionally been built based on a view of neurons as...
Artificial Intelligence Will Do What We Ask. That’s a Problem.
...keep AI systems safe. In his recent book, Human Compatible, Russell lays out his thesis in the form of three “principles of beneficial machines,” echoing Isaac Asimov’s three laws of...
The Grand Unified Theory of Rogue Waves
...sinking.” Mariners have known for centuries what researchers have documented only in recent decades: The ocean is a far more dangerous place than common sense would suggest. Data-driven researchers long...
‘Radical Change’ Needed After Latest Neutron Star Collision
A recent neutron star merger has defied astronomers’ expectations, leading them to question longstanding ideas about neutron stars and the supernovas that create them. “We have to go back to...
John Urschel: From NFL Player to Mathematician
...Yeah, so I, you know, for a year and a half, I put no points on the board, and so the past, like, recent — you know, recent time, I’ve...
Biodiversity May Thrive Through Games of Rock-Paper-Scissors
Recent findings add weight to the evidence that intransitive competitions between species enrich the diversity of nature. A pioneer of synthetic biology at the University of California, San Diego, Jeff...