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Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions
...areas of physics such as string theory. They form “a nexus where lots of different areas of mathematics come together,” Cohn said. “Something wonderful is happening, and I’d like to...
Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life
...machines in the same way we understand the physics of explosives.” We haven’t solved every problem we face regarding biological behavior because we have yet to identify the actual, specific...
New Clues to How the Brain Maps Time
...beyond neuroscience and reaches into physics. Physicists consider space-time as a cohesive, four-dimensional entity, a fabric upon which the objects and events of the universe are embedded. “Neuroscience must converge...
Inside the Din, Cells Fight Noise With Noise
...least in comparison to human-engineered systems,” Elowitz said. “I was coming from physics, where people devise clever ways to reduce noise and even more clever ways to utilize noise to...
Treading Softly in a Connected World
...complications, and Stanley, a professor of physics at Boston University, thinks he knows why. “Everything depends on everything else,” he said. Three years ago, Stanley and his colleagues discovered the...
Physicists Attack Math’s $1,000,000 Question
...numbers.” As mathematicians have attacked the hypothesis from every angle, the problem has also migrated to physics. Since the 1940s, intriguing hints have arisen of a connection between the zeros...
Evidence of a ‘Fifth Force’ Faces Scrutiny
...particle physicist at the University of California, Irvine, and colleagues. After spending months translating the nuclear physics finding into the language of particle physics and ensuring that no particle physics...
Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math.
The laws of physics imply that the passage of time is an illusion. To avoid this conclusion, we might have to rethink the reality of infinitely precise numbers. Strangely, although...
The Quantum Secret to Superconductivity
...Philip Anderson, a Nobel Prize winner and one of the founders of condensed-matter physics, advanced in the 1980s. Sachdev posits a kind of order in cuprates that isn’t seen in...