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The Year in Biology
...have survived for perhaps more than 100 million years. And if you have been losing sleep over recent events in the news, well, science has finally learned why that is...
The Curious Strength of a Sea Sponge’s Glass Skeleton
...biologists, materials scientists and engineers at Harvard University has focused on the feature of Venus’ flower basket that attracted Owen: the intricate design of its glass skeleton. Their recent work...
Secret Ingredient Found to Power Supernovas
...supernovas “has been a central unsolved problem in astrophysics,” said Adam Burrows, an astrophysicist at Princeton University who has studied supernovas for more than 35 years. In recent years, however,...
Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Hold Clues to Persistent Mysteries
...in the noise?’” said Lendner, an anesthesiology resident at the University Medical Center in Tübingen, Germany, who recently completed a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley. “I said, ‘Yes....
Growing Inventory of Black Holes Offers a Radical Probe of the Cosmos
...dynamic and isolated scenarios are almost equally likely. There is no “one channel to rule them all,” wrote the astrophysicist Michael Zevin and collaborators in a recent preprint outlining an...
Cloud-Making Aerosol Could Devastate Polar Sea Ice
...of new particle formation. But recent measurements have found that this process is not limited to anthropogenic chemicals — it may also occur in the atmosphere over wilder, less inhabited...
How to Understand COVID-19 Variants and Their Effects on Vaccines
...a transmission advantage over the established lineages, we will likely see these variants continue to spread. Recent work predicted that the B.1.1.7 variant could become the dominant lineage and account...
Matrix Multiplication Inches Closer to Mythic Goal
A recent paper set the fastest record for multiplying two matrices. But it also marks the end of the line for a method researchers have relied on for decades to...
Mathematicians Settle Erdős Coloring Conjecture
...setting aside some edges of a graph and randomly coloring others, a combination of ideas that researchers have wielded in recent years to settle a number of long-standing open problems....