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A startling experimental discovery about how fluids behave started a wave of important mathematical proofs.
Among these cave insects, the females evolved to have penises — twice. The reasons challenge common assumptions about sex.
Biologists have demonstrated for the first time that a controversial genetic engineering technology works, with caveats, in mammals.
Jellyfish didn’t need novel genes to take an evolutionary leap in complexity.
A primordial developmental toolkit shared by all vertebrates, and described by a theory of the mathematician Alan Turing, sets the growth pattern for all types of skin structures.
Neither animal, plant, fungus nor familiar protozoan, a strange microbe that sits in its own “supra-kingdom” of life foretells incredible biodiversity yet to be discovered by new sequencing technologies.
The renowned physicist Leonard Susskind has identified a possible quantum origin for the ever-growing volume of black holes.
The availability of 16 new mouse genomes will help accelerate research into the genetic underpinnings of human traits and diseases.
What’s easy for a computer to do, and what’s almost impossible? Those questions form the core of computational complexity. We present a map of the landscape.