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    Artificial Gravity
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    How Smell Guides Our Inner World
    A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that enter your nose and the individual neurons that translate them into perception in your brain. The post How Smell Guides Our Inner World first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 16 min )
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    To Save Nature, Make It Sacred
    The post To Save Nature, Make It Sacred appeared first on NOEMA.  ( 30 min )

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    Physicists Start To Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms
    The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan. The post Physicists Start To Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 12 min )

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    Global Ranking
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    The Ascendance Of Algorithmic Tyranny
    The post The Ascendance Of Algorithmic Tyranny appeared first on NOEMA.  ( 34 min )

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    Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity
    Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture. The post Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 9 min )

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    Dehumidifier
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    Denouement In The Middle East
    The post Denouement In The Middle East appeared first on NOEMA.  ( 16 min )
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    When Did Nature Burst Into Vivid Color?
    Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color vision needed to see them. The post When Did Nature Burst Into Vivid Color? first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 11 min )

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    Laser Danger
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    How Does Graph Theory Shape Our World?
    Maria Chudnovsky reflects on her journey in graph theory, her groundbreaking solution to the long-standing perfect graph problem, and the unexpected ways this abstract field intersects with everyday life. The post How Does Graph Theory Shape Our World? first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 27 min )

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    Protected: Conversations with a Hit Man
    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: Conversations with a Hit Man appeared first on The Atavist Magazine.  ( 5 min )
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    A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up
    A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture. The post A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 11 min )

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    Weather Balloons
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    A Night of Food Futurism
    A science fiction story brought to life through a pro-GMO dinner.
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    The Unseen Fury Of Solar Storms
    The post The Unseen Fury Of Solar Storms appeared first on NOEMA.  ( 48 min )

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    Matter vs. Force: Why There Are Exactly Two Types of Particles
    Every elementary particle falls into one of two categories. Collectivist bosons account for the forces that move us while individualist fermions keep our atoms from collapsing. The post Matter vs. Force: Why There Are Exactly Two Types of Particles first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 8 min )

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    Farads
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    The Clash Between Technology & Ecology
    The post The Clash Between Technology & Ecology appeared first on NOEMA.  ( 11 min )
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    Is Mathematics Mostly Chaos or Mostly Order?
    Two new notions of infinity challenge a long-standing plan to define the mathematical universe. The post Is Mathematics Mostly Chaos or Mostly Order? first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 12 min )

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    Interoperability
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    How AI Models Are Helping to Understand — and Control — the Brain
    Martin Schrimpf is crafting bespoke AI models that can induce control over high-level brain activity. The post How AI Models Are Helping to Understand — and Control — the Brain first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 10 min )

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    Tukey
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    Fire-Eyes Of The Underworld
    The post Fire-Eyes Of The Underworld appeared first on NOEMA.  ( 25 min )

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    The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion
    By speedrunning ecosystems with microbes, researchers revealed intrinsic properties that may make a community susceptible to invasion. The post The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 12 min )

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    Exoplanet System
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    Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look.
    A new argument explores how the growth of disorder could cause massive objects to move toward one another. Physicists are both interested and skeptical. The post Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look. first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 11 min )

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    Reading a Big Number
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    Inside ARIA, the UK's Bet to Build Scientific Revolutions
    An interview with Ilan Gur, CEO of ARIA, about the organization’s efforts to build scientific waves.
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    Does Form Really Shape Function?
    From brain folds to insect architecture, L. Mahadevan explains how complex biological forms and behaviors emerge through the interplay of physical forces, environment and embodiment. The post Does Form Really Shape Function? first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 33 min )

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    30 minutes with a stranger
    Watch hundreds of strangers talk for 30 minutes, and track how their moods change  ( 12 min )
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    ‘Molecular Civil War’ In LA
    The post ‘Molecular Civil War’ In LA appeared first on NOEMA.  ( 15 min )
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    Epic Effort to Ground Physics in Math Opens Up the Secrets of Time
    By mathematically proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t flow in reverse. The post Epic Effort to Ground Physics in Math Opens Up the Secrets of Time first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 13 min )

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    Good Science
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    A New Political Compass
    The post A New Political Compass appeared first on NOEMA.  ( 38 min )

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    Life as Slime
    Prominent scientists continue to claim life is “just” slime on a spinning rock. However, in an age when the rarity and fragility of life are increasingly evident, it’s time to retire the metaphor.
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    New Quantum Algorithm Factors Numbers With One Qubit
    The catch: It would require the energy of a few medium-size stars. The post New Quantum Algorithm Factors Numbers With One Qubit first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 8 min )

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    Alert Sound
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    The 2025 Berggruen Prize Essay Contest
    The post The 2025 Berggruen Prize Essay Contest appeared first on NOEMA.  ( 11 min )
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    First Map Made of a Solid’s Secret Quantum Geometry
    Physicists recently mapped the hidden shape that underlies the quantum behaviors of a crystal, using a new method that’s expected to become ubiquitous. The post First Map Made of a Solid’s Secret Quantum Geometry first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 12 min )

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    Neighbor-Source Heat Pump
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    A Visual Guide to Genome Editors
    A selected encyclopedia of major gene-editing systems, together with illustrated diagrams.

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    The Loneliness Epidemic, in Data
    A 6 minute video about the loneliness epidemic, in data
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    How Much Energy Does It Take To Think?
    Studies of neural metabolism reveal our brain’s effort to keep us alive and the evolutionary constraints that sculpted our most complex organ. The post How Much Energy Does It Take To Think? first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 10 min )
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    AI Signals The Death Of The Author
    The post AI Signals The Death Of The Author appeared first on NOEMA.  ( 25 min )

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    Trojan Horse
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    How to Triage $35 Billion in Aid Cuts
    Inside PRO's rapid effort to connect private donors with the most cost-effective programs affected by USAID cuts.  ( 18 min )

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    The Eternal Life and Art of Maxwell Ardeen
    Bioart emerges where biological science, technology, and aesthetics collide. For one terminally ill artist, it offered a chance at immortality.
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    The Core of Fermat’s Last Theorem Just Got Superpowered
    By extending the scope of the key insight behind Fermat’s Last Theorem, four mathematicians have made great strides toward building a “grand unified theory” of math. The post The Core of Fermat’s Last Theorem Just Got Superpowered first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 12 min )

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    Bridge Types
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    How Pope Leo XIV Can Address Distributive Justice In The Age Of AI
    The post How Pope Leo XIV Can Address Distributive Justice In The Age Of AI appeared first on NOEMA.  ( 15 min )
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    How Can AI Researchers Save Energy? By Going Backward.
    Reversible programs run backward as easily as they run forward, saving energy in theory. After decades of research, they may soon power AI. The post How Can AI Researchers Save Energy? By Going Backward. first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 9 min )

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    Check Engine
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    Toxic Proteins for Drug Discovery
    Toxic amino acids, peptides, and proteins — which first evolved as molecular weapons deployed by species in conflict — can also serve as blueprints for pharmaceutical innovation.
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    Will We Ever Prove String Theory?
    Promise and controversy continues to surround string theory as a potential unified theory of everything. In the latest episode of The Joy of Why, Cumrun Vafa discusses his progress in trying to find good, testable models hidden among the ‘swampland’ of impossible universes. The post Will We Ever Prove String Theory? first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 34 min )

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    How Paradoxical Questions and Simple Wonder Lead to Great Science
    Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a philosophy he calls “recreational biology.” The post How Paradoxical Questions and Simple Wonder Lead to Great Science first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 13 min )

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    Asian Misrepresentation
    How accurately are Asian Americans cast in Hollywood?  ( 1 min )
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    Archaea
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    Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill
    Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go to the ends of space and time to find a fix. The post Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 13 min )

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    Mass Spec
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    Protected: The Longest Journey
    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: The Longest Journey appeared first on The Atavist Magazine.  ( 5 min )

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    Drafting
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    Reservoirs of Resistance
    By studying the millennia-old arms race between soil-dwelling microbes, scientists can pre-empt antibiotic resistance before it emerges in people.
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    Graduate Student Solves Classic Problem About the Limits of Addition
    A new proof illuminates the hidden patterns that emerge when addition becomes impossible. The post Graduate Student Solves Classic Problem About the Limits of Addition first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 11 min )

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    For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time
    One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famous questions in computer science. The post For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 17 min )
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    What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds beyond Ours
    Cats Don’t Talk We humans have perhaps 100 billion neurons in our brains. But what if we had many more? Or what if the AIs we built effectively had many more? What kinds of things might then become possible? At 100 billion neurons, we know, for example, that compositional language of the kind we humans […]  ( 46 min )

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    Baker's Units
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    Keeping Ahead of Contagion
    We have the technology to detect airborne pathogens in real time. Now we must use it.
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    ‘Turbocharged’ Mitochondria Power Birds’ Epic Migratory Journeys
    Slight changes in the number, shape, efficiency and interconnectedness of organelles in the cells of flight muscles provide extra energy for birds’ continent-spanning feats. The post ‘Turbocharged’ Mitochondria Power Birds’ Epic Migratory Journeys first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 12 min )

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    Renormalization
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    New ‘Superdiffusion’ Proof Probes the Mysterious Math of Turbulence
    Turbulence is a notoriously difficult phenomenon to study. Mathematicians are now starting to untangle it at its smallest scales. The post New ‘Superdiffusion’ Proof Probes the Mysterious Math of Turbulence first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 13 min )

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    Sail Physics
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    Model Organisms Are Not Static
    A research study reveals that some vertebrate genomes mutate 40-times faster than others.
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    How Did Geometry Create Modern Physics?
    Geometry may have its origins thousands of years ago in ancient land surveying, but it has also had a surprising impact on modern physics. In the latest episode of The Joy of Why, Yang-Hui He explores geometry’s evolution and its future potential through AI. The post How Did Geometry Create Modern Physics? first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 32 min )

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    How the Universe Differs From Its Mirror Image
    From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of “chiral” objects that differ from their reflected forms. The post How the Universe Differs From Its Mirror Image first appeared on Quanta Magazine  ( 7 min )

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    Modern
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    Seven Wonders of Biology
    A decades-old essay offers newfound appreciation for progress.

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    How Much Information is in DNA?
    Answering this question may seem straightforward, but actually requires an odyssey through information theory and molecular biology.

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    Are you more likely to die on your birthday?
    Are you more likely to die on your birthday? Yes.  ( 6 min )

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    Making the Centrifuge
    The modern centrifuge was first designed for milkfat separation in the dairy industry. Today, it is ubiquitous in research laboratories. To whom do we owe its astonishing versatility?

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    A Brief History of GFP
    How a chance discovery in bioluminescent jellyfish led to one of the most transformative tools in modern biology: green fluorescent protein.

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    The Georgist Roots of American Libertarianism
    Few thinkers have been championed by such a wide range of political coalitions, from American Progressives to Taiwanese anti-communists, early zionists to the global Green Party. So how did American libertarianism come to embrace Henry George, too?  ( 20 min )
    Knockout Mouse
    “Cancer is extremely varied and adaptive, and is likely the hardest of these diseases to fully destroy.” — Dario Amodei  ( 9 min )
    Brain Freeze
    The idea of cryonics — freezing the bodies of the dead in the hopes that they can one day be revived — has existed since the 1960s. We’ve since learned that perfect preservation is much, much harder than any of its founders anticipated.  ( 23 min )
    The Origin of the Research University
    Universities have existed for more than a thousand years — and for almost all of that time, they weren’t centers of research. What changed in 19th century Germany?  ( 24 min )
    The Universal Tech Tree
    When we try and pick out any technology in isolation, we find it hitched, in some way, to every innovation that preceded it. (Except for the Oldowan hand axe. We had to start somewhere.)  ( 17 min )
    What Are Schools For?
    The modern education system around the world continues to bear the imprint of mass education’s original goal: obedience.  ( 20 min )
    Traffic Fatalities Are a Choice
    America’s roads are more dangerous than those of almost every country in the developed world. We know how to change that.  ( 13 min )
    Reports of the Death of California High-Speed Rail Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
    Building a high-speed rail between Los Angeles and San Francisco was never going to be easy — but the critics who write it off are missing the real source of the project’s struggles.  ( 15 min )
    Can We Trust Social Science Yet?
    Everyone likes the idea of evidence-based policy, but it’s hard to realize it when our most reputable social science journals are still publishing poor quality research.  ( 17 min )
    Does AI Progress Have a Speed Limit?
    A conversation about the factors that might slow down the pace of AI development, what could happen next, and whether we’ll be able to see it coming.  ( 21 min )

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    China’s Clinical Trial Boom
    In 2017, there were just over 600 clinical trials initiated in China. By 2023, that number was nearly 2,000. How can American companies kick off a similar boom?

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    All That Glitters
    His alleged victims say he bribed New York Police Department officials, stole millions in diamonds, and persuaded Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Kim Kardashian to shill for a scam cryptocurrency. So why is Jona Rechnitz still free? The post All That Glitters appeared first on The Atavist Magazine.  ( 53 min )

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    Does Abundance Start at Home?
    Kelsey Piper and Jasmine Sun talk about microschools, whether localism is the enemy of Abundance, and why Chinese bureaucrats are like Growth PMs.  ( 27 min )
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    Eulogy to the Obits
    With a litany of gene therapies and longevity medicine staving off biological death, those paid to write about it must reimagine their craft.

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    Can Plants Really “See”?
    Some researchers claim that a Chilean vine can mimic the leaves of a plastic houseplant thanks to a form of primitive vision. But extraordinary claims require equally extraordinary evidence.

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    The Pour-igin of Species
    We try to predict the price and quality of a bottle of wine based on the animal on the label.  ( 23 min )

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    The Magic of Fast Feedback Loops
    Why biologists should operate with a sense of urgency.

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    Recipe for a Cell
    While we know how to break organisms down to their constituent parts, even at the atomic level, building them from scratch remains difficult.

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    On Prions and Protein Design
    Prions are extremely resilient, infectious proteins. Studying their shape-shifting abilities could reveal lessons for how proteins fold at a molecular level, helping scientists design better ones.

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    Where Babies Come From
    It’s more complicated than you may think.  ( 19 min )
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