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The Astrophysicist Who Sculpts Stars Before They Are Born
...In addition to being much farther from Earth than all known exoplanets, this candidate was also detected around a star that’s at a much later stage in its evolution than...
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Two Weeks In, the Webb Space Telescope Is Reshaping Astronomy
...Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey. Just weeks into the survey, the team has bagged a handful of galaxies from the universe’s first 500 million years, although Larson and...
The Deep Mystery at the Heart of Life on Earth
As an evolutionary biochemist at University College London, Nick Lane explores the deep mystery of how life evolved on Earth. His hypothesis that life started with primitive metabolic reactions in...
Why and How Do We Dream?
...is there some evolutionary reason for dreaming? Dreams are inherently hard to study. Even with all the advances in science and technology, we still haven’t really found a way to...
Webb Space Telescope Snaps Its First Photo of an Exoplanet
...masses, less than SPHERE’s estimate of about 10. Their results also help nail down the planet’s radius, which is 1.4 times that of Jupiter. Simple models of planetary evolution can’t...
Molecule-Building Innovators Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
...and opened up the possibility of selectively delivering drugs to particular tissues in the body. These findings have “led to a revolution in how chemists think about linking molecules together...
How Do You Prove a Secret?
...the turn of the 21st century that such proofs took off. “In the late 2000s, we started to see the evolution of efficient techniques for building zero-knowledge proofs,” said Matthew...
Human Brains Are Hard to Study. He Grows Useful Substitutes.
...I almost felt envious of my colleagues on the oncology ward. The molecular biology revolution, combined with the accessibility of the cancer tissues they were interested in, meant that they...