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How the Western Diet Has Derailed Our Evolution
A group of Italian microbiologists discovered that the children of a little Burkinabe village had more biodiversity among their gut bacteria than their peers in [...]
A Single Cell Hints at a Solution to the Biggest Problem in Computer Science
One small amoeba found a solution to the traveling salesman problem faster than our best algorithms. What does it know that we don't? A group of [...]
Hahn, Meitner and the discovery of nuclear fission
80 years ago, Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner made a discovery that led to nuclear weapons. The combination of Hahn’s expertise in chemistry with Meitner’s [...]