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The Year in Biology
about 13 hours ago
As I reflect on a year of Quanta biology stories to decide...
String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof
4 days ago
In August, a team of mathematicians posted a paper claiming to solve...
Cryptographers Show That AI Protections Will Always Have Holes
6 days ago
Ask ChatGPT how to build a bomb, and it will flatly respond...
Why Is Ice Slippery? A New Hypothesis Slides Into the Chat.
8 days ago
The reason we can gracefully glide on an ice-skating rink or clumsily...
The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses Language
11 days ago
Even in a world where large language models (LLMs) and AI chatbots...
What Are Lie Groups?
13 days ago
In mathematics, ubiquitous objects called groups display nearly magical powers. Though they’re...
‘Reverse Mathematics’ Illuminates Why Hard Problems Are Hard
15 days ago
When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck...
Particle Physicists Detect ‘Magic’ at the Large Hadron Collider
21 days ago
Ninety million times a year, when protons crash together at the Large...
A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life
22 days ago
Life’s fundamental structure is the cell, and so the main things that...
A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science
25 days ago
All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory...
Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe
27 days ago
Tinkering at their desks with the mathematics of quantum space and time...
Old ‘Ghost’ Theory of Quantum Gravity Makes a Comeback
29 days ago
The force we experience most intimately remains the most mysterious. Physicists understand...