The hidden world of electrostatic ecology
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Computation is all around us, and you can see it if you try
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How AI revolutionized protein science, but didn’t end it
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Biologists discovered a widespread protein that abruptly shuts down a cell’s activity — and turns it back on just as fast
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Why are plants green? To reduce the noise in photosynthesis.
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Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count
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Doubts grow about the biosignature approach to alien-hunting
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How to build an origami computer
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A brief history of tricky mathematical tiling
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The mathematician who sculpted the shape of space - obituary for Eugenio Calabi
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Physicists who explored tiny glimpses of time win Nobel Prize
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The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t persist in adults
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How quantum physicists explained Earth’s oscillating weather patterns
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What can jellyfish teach about fluid dynamics - Interview with engineering professor John Dabiri
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History of transcendental numbers
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Why the brain’s connections to the body are crisscrossed
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Explore a universe of numbers and arithmetic in our new interactive math game, Hyperjumps!
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Depression has often been blamed on low levels of serotonin in the brain. That answer is insufficient, but alternatives are coming into view and changing our understanding of the disease.
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How do fireflies flash in sync? Studies suggest a new answer.
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Physics duo finds magic in two dimensions
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Controversy continues over whether hot water freezes faster than cold
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Powerful ‘machine scientists’ distill the laws of physics from raw data
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This animal’s behavior is mechanically programmed
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A centuries-old concept in soil science has recently been thrown out. Yet it remains a key ingredient in everything from climate models to advanced carbon-capture projects.
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Detailed footage finally reveals what triggers lightning
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The Webb Space Telescope will rewrite cosmic history. If it works.
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Mathematician answers chess problem about attacking queens
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The new thermodynamic understanding of clocks
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Netta Engelhardt discovered an escape from Hawking’s black hole paradox
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How to understand the universe when you’re stuck inside of it
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How the slowest computer programs illuminate math’s fundamental limits
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Imaginary numbers may be essential for describing reality
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Decades-long quest reveals details of the proton’s inner antimatter
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Why sleep deprivation kills
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‘Milestone’ evidence for anyons, a third kingdom of particles
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What is an individual? Biology seeks clues in information theory.
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The universal geometry of geology
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What is a particle?
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Neutrinos lead to unexpected discovery in basic math
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A new cosmic tension: The universe might be too thin
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What is the geometry of the universe?
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New exoplanet search strategy claims first discovery
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Mathematicians prove universal law of turbulence
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Toward a grand unified theory of snowflakes
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New studies help to explain how microbes in the gut can shape a host’s fear responses
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2019 in review: The year in math and computer science
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Longevity linked to proteins that calm overexcited neurons
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Quantum Darwinism, an idea to explain objective reality, passes first tests
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In brain’s electrical ripples, markers for memories appear
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A mathematician has resolved the Sensitivity Conjecture, a nearly thirty-year-old problem in computer science
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