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    Physics

    Why Black Hole Interiors Grow (Almost) Forever

    Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Leonard Susskind, a pioneer of string theory, the holographic principle, and other big physics ideas spanning the past half-century, has proposed a solution to an important puzzle about black holes. The problem is that even though these mysterious, invisible spheres appear to stay […]

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    Technology

    Yuval Noah Harari Is Worried About Our Souls

    The big-data makeover of humanity could be a recipe for disaster.

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    Microbiology

    What Defines a Stem Cell?

    Our cells have more diverse regenerative capabilities than anyone expected.

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    Health

    Iron Is the New Cholesterol

    Elevated iron is at the center of a web of disease stretching from cancer to diabetes.

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    Evolution

    What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life

    Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The tree of life just got another major branch. Researchers recently found a certain rare and mysterious microbe called a hemimastigote in a clump of Nova Scotian soil. Their subsequent analysis of its DNA revealed that it was neither animal, plant, […]

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    Paleontology

    Why We Love Dinosaurs

    If museums of natural history are temples to science, dinosaurs are their shrines.