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‘Turbocharged’ Mitochondria Power Birds’ Epic Migratory Journeys
...their digestive tracts grow and then shrink. But researchers have only recently started to explore at a fundamental level how migratory birds get the energy required to keep themselves aloft...
Is Mathematics Mostly Chaos or Mostly Order?
...Arctic cold behaved oddly. He had recently constructed them, along with Joan Bagaria of the University of Barcelona and Philipp Lücke of the University of Hamburg, only to find that...
The Pursuit of Life Where It Seems Unimaginable
...In a recent comment in Nature Microbiology, Lloyd and her fellow USC microbiologist Andrew Steen advocated for naming these long-lived subsurface microbes “aeonophiles” in reference to their love of eons,...
Analog vs. Digital: The Race Is On To Simulate Our Quantum Universe
Recent progress in both analog and digital quantum simulations heralds a future in which quantum computers could simulate — and thereby illuminate — physical phenomena that are far too complex...
The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves Crashes Into View
...performing difficult algebraic calculations on a computer. Unable to adapt them to his case, Maspero reached out to Zeilberger directly. “We have recently encountered certain combinatorial problems that we cannot...
Cryptographers Show That AI Protections Will Always Have Holes
...can simply filter out forbidden prompts before they ever reach the model itself. Recently, cryptographers have intensified their examinations of these filters. They’ve shown, in recent papers that have been...
Disorder Drives One of Nature’s Most Complex Machines
...the nuclear pore complex is guided by flexibility and movement. This is more than an intellectual curiosity. A surge of recent research has linked neurodevelopmental disorders, viral disease, and cancers...
Quantum Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award
...day after Bennett and Brassard’s first meeting in Puerto Rico. Their apparatus demonstrated quantum key distribution across a distance of 30 centimeters. More recent demonstrations using satellite links have implemented...
Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything?
...those who deem it worth studying and those who don’t. Recently, a new angle of attack has opened up. An approach called bootstrapping has allowed physicists to calculate that, under...