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 Our galaxy’s stars keep a record of its past. By reading those stories, astronomers are learning more about how the […]

 Exposure to a virus isn’t an all-or-nothing proposition. The concept of “infectious dose” suggests ways to keep ourselves safer from

 Under a microscope, cells in a worm embryo deliberately eliminated one-third of their genome — an uncompromising tactic that may

 A new paper establishes a long-conjectured bound about the size of the overlap between sets of lines and points. The

 Modular forms are one of the most beautiful and mysterious objects in mathematics. What are they? The post Behold Modular

 To catch even a whiff of the universe’s earliest epochs — an age of darkness, and one of new light

 Some modern image generators rely on the principles of diffusion to create images. Alternatives based on the process behind the

 Every species develops at its own unique tempo, leaving scientists to wonder what governs their timing. A suite of new

 By using “classical shadows,” ordinary computers can beat quantum computers at the tricky task of understanding quantum behaviors. The post

 Because tree seedlings don’t grow as well when close to their parents, more tree species can be packed into tropical