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An editorially independent online publication launched by the Simons Foundation. Award-winning coverage of #physics, #biology, #math and #computerscience news.
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Physicists are buzzing over a controversial new paper that pits string theory against accepted beliefs about the cosmos’s present-day expansion and its explosive birth.
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ICYMI: A thrilling hypothesis that neutrons decay into dark matter has been tested less than a month after it was proposed. No dark matter turned up, but a mystery about neutron decays is stronger than ever.
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The study of tidal disruption events — the catastrophic flashes from black holes pulling stars apart — may be ready to challenge general relativity’s conception of an event horizon.
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ICYMI: “The machine-learning technique is almost as good as knowing the truth.” – Holger Kantz, chaos theorist at the Max Planck Institute
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From the archives: Physicists are closing the door on an intriguing loophole around the quantum phenomenon Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.”
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ICYMI: Mathematician Richard Schwartz is probing the “hidden depths” of simple problems to understand why they haven’t yet been solved.
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Laboratory axolotls, the salamanders that may teach us how to regrow lost limbs, almost all descended from just 34 animals brought to Paris in the 1860s.
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ICYMI: Long-overlooked “tunneling nanotubes” and other bridges between cells act as conduits for sharing RNA, proteins or even whole organelles.
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From the archives: Researchers are uncovering the hidden laws that reveal how the Internet grows, how viruses spread, and how financial bubbles burst.buff.ly/2HaSQnc pic.twitter.com/6i4pdoP9vj
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ICYMI: The atomic switches reminded these researchers of synapses. So they decided to build a brain out of them.
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ICYMI: “Here’s an organism that we literally know inside out” — all its genes, neurons and interconnections. “But we have no satisfying model for [its] behavior. ... We’re missing something.”
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ICYMI: A new theory about the evolution of altruism integrates the idea of kin selection with the insight that in an uncertain world, it’s smart to hedge your bets.
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8月11日 |
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String theory allows for a landscape of 10^500 different possible universes. A new conjecture argues that our universe — as currently understood — isn’t one of these options.
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The 30-year-old math sensation Peter Scholze is now one of the youngest Fields medalists for “the revolution that he launched in arithmetic geometry.”
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ICYMI: Jaguars have a little lion in them. We have a little Neanderthal in us. What do so many hybrids mean for evolution?
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8月11日 |
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Tidal disruption events — the ultrabright flashes that result when black holes rip apart passing stars — could solve an enduring mystery: Do dwarf galaxies have smaller black holes at their centers?
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8月11日 |
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ICYMI: The amount of energy infusing empty space seems too small to explain without a multiverse. But physicists have at least one alternative left to explore.
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8月11日 |
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From the archives: Physicists are attempting to map the distribution of the prime numbers to the energy levels of a particular quantum system.
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8月11日 |
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ICYMI: Doing neuroscience without a detailed map of the brain is like figuring out a computer by randomly sticking electrodes into it. A new way to map brains can help.
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8月11日 |
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Our galaxy is made up of two parts: a thin inner disk and a thicker outer one. Now, we may know why:
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