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A Secret Flexibility Found in Life’s Blueprints
...each one does. In a recent paper in Cell, however, researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and their collaborators reveal the results of just such an effort. They...
Tiny Tests Seek the Universe’s Big Mysteries
...rare, or both. In a more recent test published in April, Moore, working with his colleagues Alex Rider and Charles Blakemore, also used the microspheres to look for so-called “chameleon”...
Simple Set Game Proof Stuns Mathematicians
...papers posted online in recent weeks, mathematicians have solved a problem about the pattern-matching card game Set that predates the game itself. The solution, whose simplicity has stunned mathematicians, is...
A Bird’s-Eye View of Nature’s Hidden Order
...are certainly potential applications,” particularly in photonics. And Bartolo’s recent finding about how hyperuniformity is generated in emulsions translates into an easy recipe for stirring concrete, cosmetic creams, glass and...
The Neuroscience Behind Bad Decisions
...one recent experiment, Paul Glimcher, a neuroscientist at New York University, and collaborators asked people to choose among a variety of candy bars, including their favorite — say, a Snickers....
Genetic Architects Untwist DNA’s Turns
...In recent years, researchers have begun to understand just how important this 3-D genetic architecture really is. Just as the only accessible information in a book is what’s on the...
How to Force Our Machines to Play Fair
...another to white applicants. But as recent work has shown — most notably in the book “Weapons of Math Destruction,” by the mathematician Cathy O’Neil — discrimination that we reject...
Teeth May Reveal a Multi-Day Biological Clock
...a relatively recent social invention. What’s more, he said, nothing in the environment could have guided a weekly rhythm to evolve over millions of years. Contrast this with the circadian...
A Fight to Fix Geometry’s Foundations
...Fukaya’s more recent collaborators, Yong-Geun Oh and Hiroshi Ohta. The discussion generally followed this form: Wehrheim and McDuff would raise questions about Fukaya’s work. Fukaya and his collaborators would then...