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Radioactivity May Fuel Life Deep Underground and Inside Other Worlds
...it: The kinds of minerals needed often weren’t present. Nor did the other processes seem likely, because of the absence of recent volcanic activity and magma flows. “So we began...
Secret Workings of Smell Receptors Revealed for First Time
...research reported in the recent preprint. “So we realized that the best way to gain insight into this problem would probably be through structural methods.” Traditional methods for pinning down...
Neurons Unexpectedly Encode Information in the Timing of Their Firing
...was changed to correct the misimpression that the recent paper in Cell was the first-ever report of phase precession in human brains. As the article states, other recent studies have...
Mathematicians Prove Symmetry of Phase Transitions
...have their sights set on scale invariance, their original target. A proof of scale invariance, given the recent work on rotational symmetry and the fact that translational symmetry doesn’t need...
A Soil-Science Revolution Upends Plans to Fight Climate Change
A centuries-old concept in soil science has recently been thrown out. Yet it remains a key ingredient in everything from climate models to advanced carbon-capture projects. The hope was that...
Mating Contests Among Females, Long Ignored, May Shape Evolution
...like that of the dance flies, aren’t often observed in nature, but recent research suggests that throughout the tree of animal life, females jockey for the attention of males far...
In Topology, When Are Two Shapes the Same?
...any four-dimensional topological manifold that is homotopy equivalent to the four-dimensional sphere is also homeomorphic to the four-dimensional sphere. As Quanta explained in a recent article, that proof was so...
The Algorithm That Lets Particle Physicists Count Higher Than Two
...an electron’s path through a magnetic field — an effect called the electron’s anomalous magnetic moment. “It was a sort of love at first sight,” Laporta said recently. After a...
How Animals Map 3D Spaces Surprises Brain Researchers
...of studies recently published in Nature and Nature Neuroscience, scientists working with bats and rats showed — to their surprise — that the brain encodes 3D spaces very differently from...