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Solution: ‘How Many Half-Lives?’
...likelihood to fall under the 5-sigma threshold (1 in 3.5 million, much used in physics experiments such as the proton decay calculation), it is 4.35 years, as determined by Ethaniel....
In Natural Networks, Strength in Loops
...in leaves and the cortical blood vessels are organized in this way. “We understand the physics of the connections between entities in full, disgusting detail,” Magnasco said of simple circulatory...
Solution: ‘Time Through an LCD Display’
...to making science games. The games feature a variety of physics topics, letting you run near the speed of light to experience relativity, fling planets to explore the laws of...
The Game Theory of Life
...“More recently, there have been some interesting, and much sounder, ideas, which make a link between fields that are addressing a similar issue: Statistical physics and evolutionary biology both try...
How Life Turns Asymmetric
...view on this: Anything that’s not forbidden by the laws of physics is possible.” This article was reprinted on Wired.com. Scientists are uncovering how our bodies — and everything within...
Mathematicians Shed Light on Minimalist Conjecture
...in the Bulletin. The substantial proportion of computed elliptic curves with rank higher than 1 is somewhat analogous to dark matter in physics, they added. “This large mass of rational...
Solution: A Hat Trick + 1 of Hat Puzzles
...postdoc in physics at Kyushu University.) In this game, there are 10 contestants. As before, they are given instructions by the host and allowed to confer before the game. The...
Solution: ‘Which Forecasts Are True?’
...as I’ve said before in these columns, is that physics of one or two particles is far simpler, and therefore far kinder to our mathematical models, than the highly messy...
Debating the Evolution of Multicellularity
...and the Evolution of Multicellularity,” at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The daily talk sessions were attended by scores of highly regarded...