1124 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 45, NUMBER 9 I n the twentieth century, the quest for deeper understanding of the laws of nature has largely revolved around the development of two great theories: namely, general relativity and quantum mechanics. General relativity is, of course, Einstein’s theory according to which gravitation results from the curvature of space and time; the mathematical framew...

So picture the astonishment of British and Belgian scientists as they scanned her brain using a kind o MRI that detects blood flow to active parts of the brain. When they recited sentences, the parts involved in language lit up. When they asked her to imagine visiting the rooms of her house, the part involved in navigating space and recognizing places ramped up. And when they asked her to imagi...

Glueball candidates and qq̄ mesons have been found to be produced with different momentum and angular dependences in the central region of pp collisions. This talk illustrates this phenomenon and explains the φ and t dependences of mesons with JPC = 0±+, 1++, 2±+. For production of 0++ and 2++ mesons the analysis reveals a systematic behaviour in the data that appears to distinguish between qq̄ a...

Many of the most important breakthroughs in science do not come from hypothesis-driven experiments. Apart from serendipity, genetics is perhaps our best route to discoveries that elude our intuition. Genetics establishes a relationship between a gene and a phenotype, but does not necessarily provide mechanistic information. The emerging story of PCSK9 (originally called Narc-1) provides a case ...