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[:eu]Where Gravity Is Weak and Naked Singularities Are Verboten[:]
[:eu]The British physicist and mathematician Sir Roger Penrose conjectured in 1969 that visible or “naked” singularities are actually forbidden from forming in nature, in a kind of cosmic censorship. But […]
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[:eu]Dark Matter Recipe Calls for One Part Superfluid[:]
[:eu]A different kind of dark matter could help to resolve an old celestial conundrum.[:]
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[:eu]Wanted: More Data, the Dirtier the Better[:]
[:eu]The computational immunologist Purvesh Khatri embraces messy data as a way to capture the messiness of disease. As a result, he’s making elusive genomic discoveries.[:]
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[:eu]A Theory of Reality as More Than the Sum of Its Parts[:]
[:eu]New math shows how, contrary to conventional scientific wisdom, conscious beings and other macroscopic entities might have greater influence over the future than does the sum of their microscopic components.[:]
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[:eu]The Thoughts of a Spiderweb[:]
[:eu]Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn’t fully confined within the head. 10 [:]
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[:eu]Discoveries Fuel Fight Over Universe’s First Light[:]
[:eu]Researchers have looked further into the early universe than ever before. The new discoveries should make clear just how much black holes contributed to the reionization of the universe, even […]
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[:eu]A Defense of the Reality of Time[:]
[:eu]Time isn’t just another dimension, argues Tim Maudlin. To make his case, he’s had to reinvent geometry.[:]
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[:eu]Swirling Bacteria Linked to the Physics of Phase Transitions[:]
[:eu]The new experiments suggest that simple models can explain the behavior of thousands of interacting organisms.[:]
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[:eu]The Quantum Thermodynamics Revolution[:]
[:eu]As physicists extend the 19th-century laws of thermodynamics to the quantum realm, they’re rewriting the relationships among energy, entropy and information.[:]