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The music instinct : how music works and why we can't do without it
The Music Instinct Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what is known--and what is still unknown--about how music works its magic, and why, as much as eating and sleeping, it seems indispensable to humanity. --from publisher description
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Water is an active matrix of life for cell and molecular biology
Szent-Győrgi called water the “matrix of life” and claimed that there was no life without it. This statement is true, as far as we know, on our planet, but it is not clear whether it must hold throughout the cosmos. To evaluate that question requires a close consideration of the many varied and subtle roles that water plays in living cells—a consideration that must be free of both an assumed essentialism that gives water an almost mystical life-giving agency and a traditional tendency to see it as a merely passive solvent. Water is a participant in the “life of the cell,” and here I describe some of the features of that active agency. Water’s value for molecular biology comes from both the structural and dynamic characteristics of its status as a complex, structured liquid as well as its nature as a polar, protic, and amphoteric reagent. Any discussion of water as life’s matrix must, however, begin with an acknowledgment that our understanding of it as both a liquid and a solvent is still incomplete.
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Physics of life: The dawn of quantum biology
The key to practical quantum computing and high-efficiency solar cells may lie in the messy green world outside the physics lab.
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Extreme chemistry: experiments at the edge of the periodic table
As the chase for new elements slows, scientists focus on deepening their understanding of the superheavy ones they already know.
As the chase for new elements slows, scientists focus on deepening their understanding of the superheavy ones they already know.
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First quantum computer to pack 100 qubits enters crowded race
But IBM’s latest quantum chip and its competitors face a long path towards making the machines useful.
But IBM’s latest quantum chip and its competitors face a long path towards making the machines useful.
Credit: IBM
Interior of IBM Quantum computing system.
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The lightning-fast quest for COVID vaccines — and what it means for other diseases
The speedy approach used to tackle SARS-CoV-2 could change the future of vaccine science.
The speedy approach used to tackle SARS-CoV-2 could change the future of vaccine science.
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