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Cryptography Pioneer Seeks Secure Elections the Low-Tech Way
...algorithm, for which the trio was awarded the 2002 A.M. Turing Award, essentially the Nobel Prize of computing. In recent decades, Rivest has continued to work on making it computationally...
A Rapid End Strikes the Dinosaur Extinction Debate
...2018, The Atlantic called the debate “The Nastiest Feud in Science.” Until recently, Pincelli Hull kept out of the fray. In her subfield, marine plankton fossils, the impact was considered...
Billion-Year-Old Algae and Newer Genes Hint at Land Plants’ Origin
A recently unearthed fossil and new genomic discoveries are filling important gaps in scientists’ understanding of how primitive green algae eventually evolved into land vegetation. Around 500 million years ago...
Where Do New Genes Come From?
...that the debate has shifted from whether de novo genes exist to how much they contribute to evolution and adaptation. Recent experiments by McLysaght and other researchers have begun to...
Sugary Camouflage on Coronavirus Offers Vaccine Clues
...of a specialist subdiscipline,” said Max Crispin, a glycobiologist at the University of Southampton in England and one of the leaders of the recent SARS-CoV-2 work on glycans (part of...
Why South Asia’s COVID-19 Numbers Are So Low (For Now)
...anywhere (let alone strains with different rates of virulence), and a recent study has shown there to be no correlation between BCG vaccination and COVID-19 susceptibility.” It is therefore very...
How the Bits of Quantum Gravity Can Buzz
...said Daniel Holz, an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago. “And the quantum gravity stuff is happening right at the center of this — so that’s too bad.” But recently...
Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang
...inflation who has become one of its most prominent critics. In recent years, Steinhardt and others have been developing a different story of how our universe came to be. They...
Extra DNA May Make Unlikely Hybrid Fish Possible
...snouts, and green, dragonlike scales. Their fathers were American paddlefish — smooth-skinned filter feeders with sensitive, elongated snouts. “Sturddlefish,” as these hybrids have been nicknamed since researchers in Hungary recently...