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Sarah Lewin

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The assistant news editor @sciam. Previously @SPACEdotcom. Proud grade school Pokemon TCG champion. She/her. "Riveting at the sheer geek level."
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Physicists pinpoint the perfect crystal site for an ultra-accurate nuclear clock

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By Sarah Lewin Verified, Jacek Krywko Verified
| Scientific American Verified
Growing crystals “like alchemy,” researchers plotted out the ideal site within the lattice to build a nuclear clock Today's best atomic clocks, which track time by measuring the way electrons consistently jump between energy states when exposed to particular laser light, would lose less than one second of accuracy over the entire age of the universe so far.
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What the mathematics of billiards can tell us about loving and letting go

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By Sarah Lewin Verified, Sam Macdonald Verified
| Scientific American Verified
A mathematician may have solved a 250-year-old question about whether every polygon contains a path home As the saying goes, “If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it is yours. If it doesn't, it never was.” What most people don't tell you is that if you let that something go from exactly the right place at exactly the right angle, it will return to you with mathematical certainty. At least, that's what mathematicians have been trying to prove for decades.
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Popular drug metformin transforms your gut into a sugar sink

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By Viviane Callier Verified, Sarah Lewin Verified
| Scientific American Verified
Researchers are finally learning the mechanism behind one of the most prescribed medicines in the U.S., primarily used to treat or prevent type 2 diabetes Metformin is one of the most prescribed medicines in the U.S., primarily to treat or prevent type 2 diabetes . But how it works has been something of a mystery. Now researchers have discovered that the substance essentially transforms a person's gut cells into a sugar sink, resulting in lowered levels of glucose.
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