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Genetics Spills Secrets From Neanderthals’ Lost History
...strikingly different in many respects. Yet a new genetic analysis suggests that Neanderthals may have had an out-of-Africa migratory experience not unlike our own. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine; source: hairymuseummatt, DrMikeBaxter...
Bacteria Use Brainlike Bursts of Electricity to Communicate
...consumption by growing out of phase: each grows while the other is resting. Olena Shmahalo/ Quanta Magazine Adapted from Suel Lab at UCSD (Reference: J Liu et al. Science, 2017)...
Interspecies Hybrids Play a Vital Role in Evolution
...is threatened by heartier hybrids born of interbreeding with barred tiger salamanders from another region. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Natural History Museum, London/Science Photo Library United States Fish and Wildlife Service...
New Shapes Solve Infinite Pool-Table Problem
...of the story misidentified the paper that the billiard work appears in. That paper, co-authored by Eskin, McMullen, Mukamel and Wright, is not yet published. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine; background: FrostBo...
Scientists Unveil New Inventory of Universe’s Dark Contents
...in Chile (left). The camera is made out of 74 individual light-gathering wafers (right). Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine; density map: Chihway Chang, Dark Energy Survey collaboration; sky image: Axel Mellinger. Fermilab...
The Illuminating Geometry of Viruses
...building blocks are shown. Twarock uses Hamiltonian paths along segments of the RNA (yellow) to help determine the virus’s assembly mechanism. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine, source: Reidun Twarock Geraets JA, Dykeman...
Missing Mutations Suggest a Reason for Sex
...the evolutionary value of sex. Alexey Kondrashov, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Quanta Magazine...
Pentagon Tiling Proof Solves Century-Old Math Problem
...program running through tiling possibilities and arriving at the 15th type of pentagon tiling. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Michaël Rao Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Quanta Magazine, adapted from Inductiveload (left) and Joshua Socolar and...
Strange Noise in Gravitational-Wave Data Sparks Debate
...science as usual. … Healthy, positive communication is very much welcome amongst scientists.” This article was reprinted on Wired.com and in Spanish at Investigacionyciencia.es. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine. Source: LIGO Lab/Caltech/MIT...