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On the Microbial Frontier, Cooperation Thrives
...working together can outcompete the cheaters, hence explaining the myriad organisms — microbes, insects and even humans — that survive thanks to cooperation. Two studies published in recent months have...
Physicists Close In on ‘Perfect’ Optical Lens
...such as structured illumination microscopy, but all have limitations: They are too slow to image dynamic processes, or they poison cells with too much light. Now, following recent breakthroughs, researchers...
Search Escalates for Key to Why Matter Exists
...neutrino-less double beta decay to date —indicated that the half-life range must start at a higher point. The outcome corroborates recent results by the EXO-200 and KamLAND-Zen experiments that together...
In Brain’s ‘Rich Club,’ Meetings of the Mind
...been consistent with the findings in humans. Rich Club in Disarray Rich clubs have been discovered in many interconnected systems, including the Internet, social networks and flight patterns. One recent...
Big Bang Secrets Swirling in a Fluid Universe
...Princeton University with a recent paper on the technique that has been accepted by the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. The more information that astronomers gather about the distribution...
Scientists Reveal Structure of Pain Sensor
...who discovered the capsaicin receptor in 1997, and his current collaborators, Erhu Cao, Maofu Liao and Yifan Cheng, shown left to right, who recently helped to resolve its structure. About...
A Fluid New Path in Grand Math Challenge
...one has had a fatal flaw. (The most recent attempt to garner serious attention, by Mukhtarbay Otelbaev of the Eurasian National University in Astana, Kazakhstan, is still under review, but...
Does Competition Drive Diversity of Species?
...powerful alternative, because researchers don’t need detailed evolutionary histories. “The real advantage is that you can actually see what happens,” Losos said. Theirs and other recent studies have demonstrated just...
A Fundamental Theory to Model the Mind
...is dynamic. So, too, is the activity of the brain. In recent work, Chialvo said, researchers have demonstrated that both traffic dynamics and brain dynamics exhibit criticality. Sporns emphasizes that...