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What Drives Galaxies? The Milky Way’s Black Hole May Be the Key.
...But several recent observations suggest that AGN feedback shapes it as well. By studying the details of the interplay between these feedback mechanisms in our home galaxy — and grappling...
Why and How Do We Dream?
...Dreams are so personal, subjective and fleeting, they might seem impossible to study directly and with scientific objectivity. But in recent decades, laboratories around the world have developed sophisticated techniques...
How Transformers Seem to Mimic Parts of the Brain
...of neurons in the brain. In recent work, researchers have shown that the hippocampus, a structure of the brain critical to memory, is basically a special kind of neural net,...
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Chaos Researchers Can Now Predict Perilous Points of No Return
...now,” said Ying-Cheng Lai, a physicist at Arizona State University. “How do you tell that it’s not going to be OK in the future?” In a series of recent papers,...
Pioneering Quantum Physicists Win Nobel Prize in Physics
...communication network. In a landmark 1998 publication, Zeilinger and his collaborators demonstrated the ability to swap entanglement between photons that had never been in contact with each other. In recent...
Teenager Solves Stubborn Riddle About Prime Number Look-Alikes
...Larsen’s most recent obsession felt different, “longer and more intense than most of his other projects,” she said. For more than a year and a half, Larsen couldn’t stop thinking...
Why Mathematicians Study Knots
...may be no surprise that the tabulation of knots is still ongoing. Most recently, in 2020, Benjamin Burton classified all prime knots up to 19 crossings (of which there are...
Ocean Bacteria Reveal an Unexpected Multicellular Form
...infections on catheters, the slimy green of pond scum and the gunk clogging your bathtub drain. But Schwartzman’s recent work, which she conducted as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab...
A Dream of Discovering Alien Life Finds New Hope
...first rocky, temperate worlds, she was called on again to play the role of cosmic home inspector. Most recently, the Belgium-based SPECULOOS survey reached out for her help understanding a...