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What Is the Positive Grassmannian and Why Does It Show Up Everywhere?
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How Physicists Track and Trap the Elusive Neutrino
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Seventy years ago, the physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines took a...
A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns
3 days ago
For those who see the world as a dark place, the universe...
Why the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI
7 days ago
Since its molecular structure was deduced in the 1950s, DNA has been...
Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?
8 days ago
In 1992, mathematicians famously proved that seven “riffle shuffles” — the kind...
How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
10 days ago
Every time I write about particle physics, I encounter a moment of...
Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself.
13 days ago
At this moment, a spacecraft is headed from Earth to Europa, an...
What’s the Future of Gene Editing?
14 days ago
One of the most surprising and remarkable discoveries in recent scientific history...
An Early Step on the Long, Strange Road to Photosynthesis
15 days ago
Every second, trillions of watts of solar energy — more than 10,000...
How Terry Tao Became an Evangelist for AI in Math
17 days ago
The following has been adapted from The Proof in the Code: How...
Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?
20 days ago
I t was the dead of winter in Boston. The surface of...
More Conversations, Complex Questions, and Bold Ideas in Season Five of ‘The Joy of Why’
21 days ago
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