Could Humans Have a Brain Microbiome?
The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well.
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There’s a New Way to Count Prime Numbers
To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source.
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Scientists Re-Create the Conditions That Sparked Complex Life
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists...
Read MoreWhy Computer Scientists Need Magic 8 Ball-Like Oracles
Hypothetical devices that can quickly and accurately answer questions have become a powerful tool in computational complexity theory.
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This New Algorithm for Sorting Books or Files Is Close to Perfection
The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away...
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The Saw-Toothed Function That Broke Calculus
In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time,...
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These Plants Photosynthesize Deep in the Arctic Even When There’s No Light
Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever observed in nature.
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