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[: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.[:]

[: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.[:]

[: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 [:]

[: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 […]

[:eu]Time isn’t just another dimension, argues Tim Maudlin. To make his case, he’s had to reinvent geometry.[:]

[: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.[:]