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Brian Keating’s Quest for the Origin of the Universe
...much more panoramic, it’s so much more beautiful and deep than the numbers that we’ve come to find with such accuracy and precision, that describe its composition and evolution, that...
A Digital Locksmith Has Decoded Biology’s Molecular Keys
...depends on the structure beneath a protein’s surface. “What evolution is probably optimizing for is precisely this induced fit,” said AlQuraishi. “What’s surprising about [MaSIF] is that even with this...
The Two Forms of Mathematical Beauty
...a group of organisms, not just the most beautiful butterflies or birds, and discovered the general theory of evolution. Chemists classified all the elements, going beyond the easy bling of...
This Cosmologist Knows How It’s All Going to End
...of dark matter, the physics of the early universe, the evolution of galaxies and the nature of black holes. But she’s most widely known as a science communicator and social...
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Why Is Glass Rigid? Signs of Its Secret Structure Emerge.
...said. Bapst and his colleagues first used the results of simulations to train their AI system: They created a virtual cube of glass comprising 4,096 molecules, simulated the evolution of...
An Unexpected Twist Lights Up the Secrets of Turbulence
...the researchers to see and closely measure the evolution of the vortices. Then they had a lucky break: They took to writing on the hydrofoils with a Sharpie to help...
Deep Neural Networks Help to Explain Living Brains
...the performance of humans, who are extremely good at recognizing objects despite variation. Unbeknownst to Yamins, a revolution brewing in the world of computer vision would also independently validate the...
Physicists Pin Down Nuclear Reaction From Moments After the Big Bang
...time. Cosmologists want to check whether the density of the cosmos changed from one period to the other as expected based on their models of cosmic evolution. If the two...
What Is a Particle?
...said. “Then we can say, ‘Aha, now I can see why this picture can be interpreted as evolution.’” It-from-qubit and amplitudeology approach the big questions so differently that it’s hard...