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Stable Perception in the Adult Brain

Neurons return to their original state after a change.

Gene Drives Reach Mammals

A new genetic technology that can quickly change entire populations gets broader.

January 23, 2019

How Nearby Stellar Explosions Could Have Killed Off Large Animals

A new study suggests that subatomic particles called muons streamed through the atmosphere and fatally irradiated megafauna like the monster shark megalodon.

January 23, 2019

How Black Holes Nearly Ruined Time

Quantum mechanics rescued our understanding of past and future from the black hole.

Surprising Network Activity in the Immature Brain

Developing brain networks act locally to build globally.

The Strangeness of Black Holes

From quantum information to the Schwarzschild radius.

January 16, 2019

Why the Brain Is So Noisy

The surprising importance of spontaneous order and noise to how we think.

January 16, 2019

The Architecture of Odor Perception

Olfactory glomeruli have a unique structure.

How We’ll Forget John Lennon

Our culture has two types of forgetting.

January 9, 2019