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Theories about how animals became multicellular are shifting as researchers find greater complexity in our single-celled ancestors.
After an interstellar asteroid shot past the sun, scientists realized that there’s probably a lot of itinerant rocks out there.
Mathematicians have proved that a random process applied to a random surface will yield consistent patterns.
To researchers’ surprise, deep learning vision algorithms often fail at classifying images because they mostly take cues from textures, not shapes.
Researchers struggle to incorporate ongoing evolutionary discoveries into an animal classification scheme older than Darwin.
Contrary to popular belief, bacteria have organelles too. Scientists are now studying them for insights into how complex cells evolved.
Surviving fragments of genetic material preserved in sediments allow scientists to see the full diversity of past life — even microbes.
The universe of problems that a computer can check has grown. The researchers’ secret ingredient? Quantum entanglement.
Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory. Their previously untold story illustrates the changing status of computation in science.