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[:eu]The new experiments suggest that simple models can explain the behavior of thousands of interacting organisms.[:]

[:eu]As physicists extend the 19th-century laws of thermodynamics to the quantum realm, they’re rewriting the relationships among energy, entropy and information.[:]

[:eu]Trash collectors in the cell moonlight at the controls of the genetic machinery.[:]

[:eu]When a German retiree proved a famous long-standing mathematical conjecture, the response was underwhelming.[:]

[:eu]Physicists are attempting to map the distribution of the prime numbers to the energy levels of a particular quantum system.[:]

[:eu]In order to fully understand the quantum world, we may have to develop a new realm of mathematics.[:]

[:eu]For decades, researchers believed that violent supernovas forged gold and other heavy elements. But many now argue for a different cosmic quarry.[:]

[:eu]Examine evolution over the course of years or centuries, and you’ll find that it progresses much more quickly than it does over geologic time. Now the oldest viruses on the […]

[:eu]Computational physicist Sharon Glotzer is uncovering the rules by which complex collective phenomena emerge from simple building blocks.[:]