What Robert Langlands’ Wormhole Theory Actually Does For Mathematics
The Langlands program links number theory and wave analysis, and mathematicians still struggle to agree on what it truly means.
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Leonardo da Vinci Procrastinated for Years on the Mona Lisa — and It May Have Been the Secret to His Genius
Leonardo da Vinci's endless delays on the Mona Lisa weren't laziness—new research links his procrastination to genius-level creativity.
Denisovan arm bone and stone tools show the mysterious human lineage occupied a Chinese cave across 100 millennia
A cave in China yields the first Denisovan arm bone plus tools and animal bones, revealing 100,000 years of life there.
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Bursting With Methanol, ALMA Observations Reveal
ALMA finds interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS unusually rich in methanol, reshaping ideas about icy comet formation beyond our solar system.
Moon May Have Formed in Just Five Hours, Per New Simulations of Earth’s Collision With Theia
New simulations suggest the moon formed in just 5 hours after Earth collided with Theia, reshaping planetary science.
Leipzig Team Finds a Compound That Turns On a Bone-Strengthening Receptor in Mice
German scientists found a receptor, GPR133, that strengthens bones and muscle in mice — a possible new path to treating osteoporosis.
How Ancient Greece’s Self-Winding Water Clock Kept Perfect Time for 1,800 Years
An ancient water thief kept perfect time for eighteen hundred years, a marvel of forgotten Grecian art and patient contrivance.
Second complete map of a fruit fly brain finished, this time a male’s
A second full map of every nerve cell in a fruit fly brain has been completed, a work of vast and patient toil for science.
Scientists Catch Einstein’s Gravity at Work on the Quantum Scale
Physicists have beheld Einstein's law of gravity within the quantum domain, splitting an atom's phantom wave into two paths of fate.
Genetic Study Reveals the American “Cheetah” Was Actually a Close Relative of the Mountain Lion
A long-vanished beast, styled a cheetah, proves instead a cousin of a stealthy mountain cat, its northern kindred sustained upon fish.