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The Hard Lessons of Modeling the Coronavirus Pandemic
...pandemic response — that is, until everything went wrong. Their typical areas of research include building models for condensed matter physics, viral evolution and population dynamics, not epidemiology or public...
Growing Inventory of Black Holes Offers a Radical Probe of the Cosmos
...holes form, and why they merge. This growing black hole inventory could also offer a novel way to probe cosmological evolution — from the Big Bang through the birth of...
Bonnie Bassler on Talkative Bacteria and Eavesdropping Viruses
...evolution, right? To — and certainly they get more complicated and possibly more fascinating in higher organisms, but we think we’re really learning something about: What does it take to...
Why Extraterrestrial Life Might Not Be So Alien
The zoologist Arik Kershenbaum of the University of Cambridge discusses convergent evolution, animal communications and why life throughout the universe may have certain common features. Emily Buder/Quanta Magazine; Luke Wolagiewicz...
Finding Zen in the Art of Puzzle Solving
...color. The round at which this occurs is listed in the second column. The evolution of the pot is shown for each of the six possible card orders for four-card...
Long-Missing Midsize Black Hole Flashes Into View
...drive the evolution of the galaxies they inhabit. Yet astronomers can’t figure out how they got so big. Some appear to have formed as early as 600 million years after...
Iceland’s Eruptions Reveal the Hot History of Mars
...up for a future eruption. Yet little is concretely understood about the origins, evolution and behavior of Mars’ volcanism, which is one reason why researchers are excited to use the...
Amie Wilkinson Sees the Dynamic Chaos in Puff Pastry
...as being the evolution of time, then you can address a question like, “Given the current configuration of our solar system, how long will it take until Mercury goes retrograde?”...
Physicists Identify the Engine Powering Black Hole Energy Beams
...normal evolution” — the plasma swirls around the black hole like water around a drain, and weak, randomly oriented, fluctuating magnetic field lines swirl with it. The turbulence of the...