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The New Math of How Large-Scale Order Emerges

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The New Math of How Large-Scale Order Emerges

By PHILIP BALL

The puzzle of emergence asks how regularities emerge on macro scales out of uncountable constituent parts. A new framework has researchers hopeful that a solution is near.

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IMMUNOLOGY

 

The Brainstem Fine-Tunes Inflammation Throughout the Body

By ESTHER LANDHUIS

The evolutionarily ancient part of the brain that controls breathing and heart rate also regulates the immune system — a discovery about the brain-body axis made by experts on taste.


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QUANTA SCIENCE PODCAST

 

Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms

Podcast hosted by SUSAN VALOT;
Story by CHARLIE WOOD

There are two known types of gamma-ray bursts: short ones and long ones. Recent observations are forcing astronomers to rethink their best theories of what might cause them.

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ESSAYS

 

Computation Is All Around Us, and You Can See It if You Try

By LANCE FORTNOW

Computer scientist Lance Fortnow writes that by embracing the computations that surround us, we can begin to understand and tame our seemingly random world.

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