Peptides on Stardust May Have Provided a Shortcut to Life
The discovery that short peptides can form spontaneously on cosmic dust hints at more of a role for them in the origin of life, on Earth or elsewhere. ..
The discovery that short peptides can form spontaneously on cosmic dust hints at more of a role for them in the origin of life, on Earth or elsewhere. ..
A new proof significantly strengthens a decades-old result about the ubiquity of ways to represent whole numbers as sums of fractions. ..
While observing fearful memories take shape in the brains of fish, neuroscientists saw an unexpected level of synaptic rewiring. ..
Astronomers tried to confirm a signal from the birth of the first stars after the Big Bang. They saw nothing. ..
A 3D digital model of a “minimal cell” leads scientists closer to understanding the barest requirements for life. ..
The electrical chatter of our working memories reflects our lack of confidence about their contents. ..
In computer simulations, researchers have discovered that a neural network can infer the amount of matter in a whole universe by studying just one galaxy. ..
How might our universe emerge like a hologram out of a two-dimensional sheet? An infinitely distant “celestial sphere” could hold answers. ..
The same phenomenon by which an opera singer can shatter a wineglass also underlies the very existence of subatomic particles. ..
Decades ago, a mathematician posed a warmup problem for difficult questions about prime numbers. It turned out to be just as difficult to solve—until ..