A new imaging technique gives scientists the 3D position of individual atoms within an optical lattice for the first time, surpassing previous methods that...
IntroductionMore than 150 years ago, the economist and philosopher William Stanley Jevons discovered something curious about the number 4. While musing about how the...
IntroductionMany complicated advances in research mathematics are spurred by a desire to understand some of the simplest questions about numbers. How are prime numbers...
IntroductionWhen the paleontologist Michael D’Emic cut into the bones of Majungasaurus, a relative of Tyrannosaurus rex that roamed Madagascar 70 million years ago, he suspected...
IntroductionThe Neumayer III polar station sits near the edge of Antarctica’s unforgiving Ekström Ice Shelf. During the winter, when temperatures can plunge below minus...
Rebuilding of marine ecosystems after the devastation at the end of the Permian invited multiple lineages of reptiles to the marine habitat, leading to...
