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What’s the Magic Behind Graphene’s ‘Magic’ Angle?

A new theoretical model may help explain the shocking onset of superconductivity in stacked, twisted carbon sheets.

June 11, 2019

Immune Cells Measure Time to Identify Foreign Proteins

T-cells identify what belongs in the body by timing how long they can bind to it.

June 11, 2019

Do Brains Operate at a Tipping Point? New Clues and Complications

New experimental results simultaneously advance and challenge the theory that the brain’s network of neurons balances on the knife-edge between two phases.

June 11, 2019

In Search of Life’s Smoking Gun

A journey to the underwater volcanoes where life may have erupted.

June 7, 2019

Why It Pays to Play Around

Play is so important that nature invented it long before it invented us.

June 5, 2019

Travels in Geology: Touring the Capital Geology of Washington, D.C.

The nation's political center is also home to a rich geological history, found in both natural rock outcrops and the diverse suite of evocative building stones and monuments.

May 30, 2019

Travels in Geology: The Pyramids of Giza

Exploring the wonders of an ancient world.

May 30, 2019

Redefining Dinosaurs: Paleontologists are Shaking the Dinosaur Family Tree to its Roots.

A radical reconfiguration of the long-standing dinosaur family tree challenges an orthodoxy built on roughly a century and a half of research.

May 29, 2019

Juno Unveils Jupiter’s Secrets

The NASA mission has turned our knowledge of Jupiter “upside down.”

May 29, 2019