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How Do You Prove a Secret?
...the turn of the 21st century that such proofs took off. “In the late 2000s, we started to see the evolution of efficient techniques for building zero-knowledge proofs,” said Matthew...
Machine Learning Highlights a Hidden Order in Scents
...to explain these irregular cases, Wiltschko and his team considered the requirements that evolution might have levied on our senses. Each sense has been tuned over millions of years to...
Molecule-Building Innovators Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
...and opened up the possibility of selectively delivering drugs to particular tissues in the body. These findings have “led to a revolution in how chemists think about linking molecules together...
Geneticist Awarded Nobel Prize for Studies of Extinct Human Ancestors
Svante Pääbo has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for studying our extinct ancestors’ DNA. The geneticist and evolutionary anthropologist Svante Pääbo has won this year’s...
Physicists Rewrite a Quantum Rule That Clashes With Our Universe
...configuration has been “encoded” in a larger, eight-digit state. That evolution resembles a unitary one, in that there are two possibilities at the beginning and two at the end. But...
How Do Fireflies Flash in Sync? Studies Suggest a New Answer.
...until now. It’s not yet clear why nature would favor the evolution of this hodgepodge state of synchronization rather than a more uniform one. But even basic synchrony has always...
Chaos Researchers Can Now Predict Perilous Points of No Return
...network could predict the evolution of stationary chaotic systems (which don’t have tipping points) stunningly far into the future. The network relied only on records of the chaotic system’s past...
Record-Breaking Robot Highlights How Animals Excel at Jumping
...humans. “We got muscles from our great-great-great-great-great-great-great backboneless ancestors,” Sutton said. “Changing fundamental properties of bits is really hard for evolution.” Had there been more evolutionary pressure to jump really...
Webb Space Telescope Snaps Its First Photo of an Exoplanet
...masses, less than SPHERE’s estimate of about 10. Their results also help nail down the planet’s radius, which is 1.4 times that of Jupiter. Simple models of planetary evolution can’t...