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Cookie-Cutter Supernovas Might Come in Different Flavors

By Katia Moskvitch
July 31, 2017
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Astronomers thought that all Type Ia supernovas shine with the same brightness, making them incredibly useful cosmic yardsticks. But uncertainty over what causes these explosions has led researchers to reconsider their assumptions.

GFAP staining in glial cells, neurofilament protein in axons and DNA in cell nuclei
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Cell Atlases Reveal Biology’s Frontiers

By Jordana Cepelewicz
July 12, 2017
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New techniques expose unexpected diversity within seemingly uniform tissues.

Marjorie Rice
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Marjorie Rice’s Secret Pentagons

By Natalie Wolchover
July 11, 2017
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A California housewife who in the 1970s discovered four new types of tessellating pentagons is dead at 94.

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The Tricky Translation of Mathematical Ideas

By Kevin Hartnett
June 28, 2017
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Big advances in math can happen when mathematicians move ideas into areas where they seem like they shouldn’t belong.

Kuiper belt objects, planet nine
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Planet Nine Is Put on Trial in Absentia

By Natalie Wolchover
June 27, 2017
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Breathless media coverage notwithstanding, the cases for and against a hypothetical Planet Nine in the outskirts of the solar system remain inconclusive.

Dwarf irregular galaxy
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Researchers Check Space-Time to See if It’s Made of Quantum Bits

By Ramin Skibba
June 21, 2017
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The newly developed theory of emergent gravity, proposed as an alternative to dark matter, struggles in one of its first trials.

Andromeda galaxy
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How Superfluid Dark Matter Mimics an Old Idea About Gravity

By Jennifer Ouellette
June 13, 2017
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Does the force of gravity change at large scales? Perhaps not, but a new theory of dark matter shows why that could appear to be the case.

Sylvia Earle in one-person submersible DeepWorker
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Sylvia Earle Is Not Done Exploring

By John Rennie
June 7, 2017
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The legendary marine biologist discusses why she’s excited about the coming era of ocean science, the shortsightedness of maritime exploitation and diving in the Arctic in her 80s.

Paul Erdős
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Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On

By Kevin Hartnett
June 5, 2017
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Paul Erdős placed small bounties on hundreds of unsolved math problems. Over the past 20 years, only a handful have been claimed.


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