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Music for the Birth of the Universe

This composer takes inspiration from scientific cosmology and quantum mechanics.

January 24, 2017

Why Renaissance Astronomer Tycho Brahe Is Still a Star

A new theory on the scientist’s head-scratching demise.

January 23, 2017

Droplets That “Come to Life”

Life might have originated in droplets that behave surprisingly like living cells.

January 23, 2017

Plants Have an “Ear” for Music

Plant bioacoustics is a growing field of interest in science.

January 19, 2017

Fictional Multiverses Are Frankly Kind of Lame

And sorry, Eleven, but psychic powers won’t transport you to another world.

January 19, 2017

How to Build a Probability Microscope

The surprising mathematics of the extremely rare.

January 19, 2017

How to Be Lucky

It pays to imagine your life is on a winning streak.

January 19, 2017

Graph Isomorphism Vanquished—Again

László Babai has fixed the flaw in his retracted claim.

January 18, 2017