Category: 7. Science

Physicist Boris Shraiman has led an intellectually peripatetic career, to great satisfaction, success and acclaim. The theoretician, a professor at UC Santa Barbara, was recently awarded the American Physical Society’s Max Delbrück Prize in…

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• A Japanese research team demonstrated that a quantum algorithm can solve a core metabolic-modeling problem, marking one of the earliest applications of quantum computing to a biological system.
• The study shows that…

Understanding how exactly lunar dust sticks to surfaces is going to be important once we start having a long-term sustainable presence on the Moon. Dust on the Moon is notoriously sticky and damaging to equipment, as well as being…

Our explanation of the outer Solar System has revealed a host of icy moons, many with surface features that suggest a complex geology. In some cases, these features—most notably the…

Animals’ behavior and physiology are profoundly influenced by the environments in which they evolved. The laboratory strain N2, which is adapted to low atmospheric CO₂ and H₂S concentrations, robustly avoids both gases (Beets et al.,…

Kelebogile Gasealahwe’s work could shed light on jets emitted by these stars

A picture of a neutron star taken by South African astronomer Kelebogile Gasealahwe has been featured as NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day.

Gasealahwe, who has…

Will computers ever match or surpass human-level intelligence — and, if so, how? When the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), based in Washington DC, asked its members earlier this year whether neural networks…

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It’s not every day that biologists announce an entirely new branch of life, and this one has been hiding under their noses for years.

It was discovered hiding in a lab sample of marine ciliates scientists had been tending to since collecting…