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Ancient Survivors Could Redefine Sex
...a smattering are known to reproduce sexually, and those that don’t are babes in evolutionary terms, newly evolved animals that recently lost the ability to mate. “Sex must be important...
Quantum Computing Without Qubits
...just 100 atoms. A quantum simulator could do it in less than a second. Quanta Magazine spoke with Deutsch about recent progress in the field, his hopes for the near...
Networks Reveal the Connections of Disease
...numbers some 8 million people. The question was whether the same standard of care could continue if, as had recently happened in Greece, a third of the funding evaporated. But...
Joint Dust Analysis Deflates Big Bang Signal
...consistency of inflation in recent papers. The showstopping attractive energy derives from the inflaton field’s fluctuations across time and space. These fluctuations must be small for the repulsive energy to...
‘Penguin’ Anomaly Hints at Missing Particles
...real. The anomalies could go the way of so many others detected in high-energy experiments, including some measured by LHCb in recent years, and flatline as more data accumulates. “LHCb...
After Prime Proof, an Unlikely Star Rises
...Zhang at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Jose, Calif., where he presented recent advances in bounded prime gaps. An edited and condensed version of...
Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math?
On a recent train trip from Lyon to Paris, Vladimir Voevodsky sat next to Steve Awodey and tried to convince him to change the way he does mathematics. Voevodsky, 48,...
How Dinosaurs Shrank and Became Birds
...bird-specific features like feathers began to emerge long before the evolution of birds, indicating that birds simply adapted a number of pre-existing features to a new use. And recent research...
Can Information Rise From Randomness?
...in a recent Math Horizons article, I believe that our human love of solving puzzles is a reflection of the unique cognitive-emotional link that makes us the intelligent creatures we...