Mapping the brain. But not your brain…
To map neurons, researchers currently use an electron microscope to take pictures — with one image usually containing a small …
Tag Archives: theories
Testability. The criterion for good theories. The death of modern humans.
Scientists are testing a theory of particles in a Weyl semimetal instead of testing it near a black hole. Because …
The transition to life. mRNA translation. The futility of life questions.
The transition from an egg to a developing embryo is one of life’s most remarkable transformations. Yet little is known …
Fermions. Breaking the Lorenz symmetry. Shielding scientific theories from change. Breaking the tea cup.
A weird new particle imitator flouts the established rules of particle physics. The discovery could help scientists simulate how particles …
Chirality. Pasteur. Art, intuition and science…
Louis Pasteur, the 19th-century French chemist and biologist, prevented diseases, developing a process — widely known as pasteurization — for …
