Tag: Quanta

The genes for apoptosis reminded Kaczanowski and Zielenkiewicz of an arms race between a predator and its prey. In their new paper, they speculated that [Read More…]

The eRosita team, however, found no such discrepancy. “Our result was basically in line with the prediction from the very early time, from the CMB,” [Read More…]

All light-sensing structures on the chiton shell, Varney explained, are attached to nerves, which pass through the shell slits to connect to the body’s main [Read More…]

Time seems linear to us: We remember the past, experience the present and predict the future, moving consecutively from one moment to the next. But [Read More…]

For a true phase transition in one dimension, mathematicians had proved that two of these exponents must be greater than 2. But the MBL simulations [Read More…]

This extreme fragility might make quantum computing sound hopeless. But in 1995, the applied mathematician Peter Shor discovered a clever way to store quantum information. [Read More…]

You did your postdoc with the zoologist Michael Akam at Cambridge. In an era when biochemistry predominates, the study of whole animals can sometimes seem [Read More…]

It’s the year 2718. Humanity has invented a warp drive that enables a spacecraft to hyperjump to distant solar systems and back to Earth. The [Read More…]

And on the flip side, which black holes stand out to you as particularly extreme or particularly weird? I like to study the normal guys, [Read More…]