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The Year in Physics
about 4 hours ago
It in no way reflects my feelings toward Quanta staff writer Charlie...
The Year in Computer Science
1 day ago
Space and time aren’t just woven into the background fabric of the...
String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof
5 days ago
In August, a team of mathematicians posted a paper claiming to solve...
Cryptographers Show That AI Protections Will Always Have Holes
7 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.
9 days ago
The reason we can gracefully glide on an ice-skating rink or clumsily...
The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses Language
12 days ago
Even in a world where large language models (LLMs) and AI chatbots...
What Are Lie Groups?
14 days ago
In mathematics, ubiquitous objects called groups display nearly magical powers. Though they’re...
‘Reverse Mathematics’ Illuminates Why Hard Problems Are Hard
16 days ago
When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck...
Particle Physicists Detect ‘Magic’ at the Large Hadron Collider
22 days ago
Ninety million times a year, when protons crash together at the Large...
A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life
23 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
26 days ago
All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory...