Dynamic black holes may obey Hawking-style thermodynamics with an alternative entropy measure

Of the known things in the universe, black holes are among the most extreme. They pack huge amounts of mass densely into a ...

World's first synthetic cell with a complete life cycle could revolutionize biological engineering

While many of life's mysteries remain unsolved, every biologist can describe the basic processes performed by a living organism, including energy use, reproduction, growth and development. While these ...
Psychology Today

Anomaly Puzzles: How the Brain Detects the Unexpected

These short anomaly-detection puzzles are designed to illustrate how reasoning often depends on identifying inconsistencies ...
C&EN

Modular syntheses: Putting function first

And Schafmeister isn’t the only chemist turning to modular methods of synthesis to explore vast regions of chemical space. It ...