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Nikola Solic / Reuters The Lost History of Neanderthals
New genetic evidence suggests our mysterious ancient cousins were more resilient—and more humanlike—than previously thought.
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Lester V. Bergman / Getty Why Did Life on Earth Evolve So Rapidly At First?
And why did it slow down?
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Juan Cristóbal Cobo / Quanta Magazine The Physicist Modeling ISIS and the Alt-Right
The rise of new extremist groups is an impetus and a test case for physical models of terrorism and insurgency.
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Fermilab A New Way to Measure the Invisible Substances That Dominate the Universe
The Dark Energy Survey is the start of the next era of cosmology.
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Mike Zeng / Quanta Magazine The Moon's Origin Story Is in Crisis
After decades of what seemed to be settled science, there’s new, conflicting evidence for how the moon might have formed.
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John Hook / Quanta Magazine The Black-Hole Hunter Peering Into the Heart of Our Galaxy
An astrophysicist wants to test what happens when things get too close to a dense, dark lump at the center of the Milky Way.
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Jeff Sheridan / Quanta Magazine Building Codes for Bacterial Cities
Understanding the forces that shape infection-causing bacterial fortresses could reveal their subtle weaknesses.
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Gabriella Marks / Quanta Magazine The Countless Computers Embedded in Nature
An evolutionary biologist studies how flocks of birds, slime molds, networks of neurons, and other biological collectives jointly process information.
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Sin Eater / Quanta Does a Spider Use Its Web Like You Use Your Smartphone?
The debate over whether an arachnid’s web is actually a part of its mind
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Olena Shmahalo / Quanta Magazine Why Does Heat Kill Cells?
The answer to a longstanding mystery suggests that proteins are far more malleable than previously thought.
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Ashley Mackenzie / Quanta The Mysterious Origin of Our Galaxy’s Gold
After long believing that exploding stars forged the coveted metal, researchers are now divided over which extraordinary cosmic event is truly responsible.
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Olena Shmahalo / Quanta Magazine The Universe Is as Spooky as Einstein Thought
In a brilliant new experiment, physicists have confirmed one of the most mysterious laws of the cosmos.
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Caitlin Cunningham / Quanta Can Babies Understand the World From Birth?
There are surprising similarities between their brains and adults’.
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Eric King / Quanta Explorers Find Passage to Earth's Dark Age
Geochemical signals from near the planet’s core are beginning to shed light on its first 50 million years, a period long viewed as inaccessible to science.
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Olena Shmahalo / Quanta Magazine The Biological Clock Hidden in Animals' Teeth
Stripes laid down by tooth enamel could reveal why big mammals grow slower—and live longer—than small ones.
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Boya Sun / Quanta Magazine A New Way for Viruses to Hijack Cells
Many viruses thrive by blocking cells’ internal messages, but one particularly crippling infection can actually change these messages’ content.
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Ilvy Njiokiktjien / Quanta Magazine Is the Search for Dark Matter a Wild Goose Chase?
A growing number of physicists think it may be.
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Tom Parker / Quanta Magazine The Biologists Who Want to Overhaul Evolution
A half-century’s worth of scientific discoveries since the last major update to evolutionary theory has some researchers pushing for a paradigm shift.
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davidope / Quanta Magazine Can Quantum Physics Explain Consciousness?
A new approach to a once-farfetched theory is making it plausible that the brain functions like a quantum computer.
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Marta Iwanek / Quanta Magazine Uncovering Cells' Hidden Genetic Scaffolding
A 17-years-long study reveals how the complex relationships between a cell’s genes allow it to function.
