Aquaporin gene duplication followed by mutation in European eels restores broad solute permeability

Common ancestor eels lost the aquaporin gene encoding proteins with broad solute permeability. Researchers from the Institute ...

String theory: scientists are trying new ways to verify the idea that could unite all of physics

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...

Robust 'Huber mean' for geometric data protects against noise and outliers

In an era driven by complex data, scientists are increasingly encountering information that doesn't lie neatly on flat, ...

The impossibility of perfect fairness in transaction ordering

However, achieving this universally accepted “order fairness” is fundamentally impossible unless it is assumed that all nodes can communicate instantaneously (i.e., operating in an instant synchronous ...