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Graduate Student Solves Classic Problem About the Limits of Addition | Quanta Magazine
A new proof illuminates the hidden patterns that emerge when addition becomes impossible. The post Graduate...
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‘Turbocharged’ Mitochondria Power Birds’ Epic Migratory Journeys | Quanta Magazine
Slight changes in the number, shape, efficiency and interconnectedness of organelles in the cells of flight...
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New ‘Superdiffusion’ Proof Probes the Mysterious Math of Turbulence | Quanta Magazine
Turbulence is a notoriously difficult phenomenon to study. Mathematicians are now starting to untangle it at...
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How the Universe Differs From Its Mirror Image | Quanta Magazine
From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of “chiral” objects that...
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Introducing The Quanta Podcast | Quanta Magazine
Exploring the distant universe, the insides of cells, the abstractions of math, the complexity of information...
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The Fastest Way Yet to Color Graphs | Quanta Magazine
Researchers have devised a scheme for painting the edges of a graph that’s almost as speedy...
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Finding Beauty and Truth in Mundane Occurrences | Quanta Magazine
The physicist Sidney Nagel delights in solving mysteries of the universe that are hiding in plain...
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The Molecular Bond That Helps Secure Your Memories | Quanta Magazine
How do memories last a lifetime when the molecules that form them turn over within days,...
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Dimension 126 Contains Strangely Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove | Quanta Magazine
A new proof represents the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special dimensions....
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Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans? | Quanta Magazine
AI may sound like a human, but that doesn’t mean that AI learns like a human....
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AI Changes Science and Math Forever | Quanta Magazine
An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do science and math,...
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Where Do Scientists Think This Is All Going? | Quanta Magazine
We asked some of the world’s foremost experts an impossible question. Amazingly, they answered. The post...
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What Happens When AI Starts To Ask the Questions? | Quanta Magazine
Technology has forever served as science’s toolbox. But now that AI is being used to develop...
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Mathematical Beauty, Truth and Proof in the Age of AI | Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians have started to prepare for a profound shift in what it means to do math....
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Why Language Models Are So Hard To Understand | Quanta Magazine
AI researchers are using techniques inspired by neuroscience to study how language models work — and...
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Improving Deep Learning With a Little Help From Physics | Quanta Magazine
Rose Yu has a plan for how to make AI better, faster and smarter — and...
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How a Biofilm’s Strange Shape Emerges From Cellular Geometry | Quanta Magazine
Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular...
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New Proof Settles Decades-Old Bet About Connected Networks | Quanta Magazine
According to mathematical legend, Peter Sarnak and Noga Alon made a bet about optimal graphs in...
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Can Quantum Gravity Be Created in the Lab? | Quanta Magazine
Quantum gravity could help physicists unite the currently incompatible worlds of quantum mechanics and gravity. In...
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Touch, Our Most Complex Sense, Is a Landscape of Cellular Sensors | Quanta Magazine
Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle...
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To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language | Quanta Magazine
We insist that large language models repeatedly translate their mathematical processes into words. There may be...
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‘Paraparticles’ Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle | Quanta Magazine
A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle —...
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Where Does Meaning Live in a Sentence? Math Might Tell Us. | Quanta Magazine
The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated...
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Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals | Quanta Magazine
Complex neural pathways likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple...