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Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations
Two mathematicians prove that under certain extreme conditions, the Navier-Stokes equations output nonsense. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org.
Light-Triggered Genes Reveal the Hidden Workings of Memory
Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa's lab is overturning old assumptions about how memories form, how recall works and whether lost memories might be restored from "silent engrams." Read more at QuantaMagazine.org.
Secret Link Uncovered Between Pure Math and Physics
An eminent mathematician reveals that his advances in the study of millennia-old mathematical questions owe to concepts derived from physics. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org https://www.quantamagazine.org/secret-link-uncovered-between-pure-math-and-physics-20171201/
How Bacteria Help Regulate Blood Pressure
Kidneys sniff out signals from gut bacteria for cues to moderate blood pressure after meals. Our understanding of how symbiotic microbes affect health is becoming much more molecular. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org.
Choosy Eggs May Pick Sperm for Their Genes, Defying Mendel’s Law
The oldest law of genetics says that gametes combine randomly, but experiments hint that sometimes eggs select sperm actively for their genetic assets. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org.
A Zombie Gene Protects Elephants From Cancer
Elephants did not evolve to become huge animals until after they turned a bit of genetic junk into a unique defense against inevitable tumors. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org.
Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data
To efficiently analyze a firehose of data, scientists first have to break big numbers into bits. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org.
Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes
Physicists theorize that a new "traversable" kind of wormhole could resolve a baffling paradox and rescue information that falls into black holes.Read more at QuantaMagazine.org.
Brainless Embryos Suggest Bioelectricity Guides Growth
Researchers are building a case that long before the nervous system works, the brain sends crucial bioelectric signals to guide the growth of embryonic tissues. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music by SYBS.
New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Learning
A new idea is helping to explain the puzzling success of today’s artificial-intelligence algorithms — and might also explain how human brains learn.
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