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In the Quantum World, Even Points of View Are Uncertain

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Imagine standing on a railway platform watching a trolley go past. A...

What Can Birdsong Teach Us About Human Language?

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It’s fair to say that enjoyment of a podcast would be severely...

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If you follow any path of ancestry back far enough, you’ll reach...

Mathematical Thinking Isn’t What You Think It Is

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David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many...

How Public Key Cryptography Really Works, Using Only Simple Math

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For thousands of years, if you wanted to send a secret message...

The Cosmos Teems with Complex Organic Molecules

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Ten years ago, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe pulled up alongside...

New Elliptic Curve Breaks 18-Year-Old Record

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In August, a pair of mathematicians discovered an exotic, record-breaking curve. In...

Debate May Help AI Models Converge on Truth

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In February 2023, Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot Bard claimed that the James...

How Is AI Changing the Science of Prediction?

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Scientists routinely build quantitative models — of, say, the weather or an...

Physicists Spot Quantum Tornadoes Twirling in a ‘Supersolid’

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In a lab nestled between the jagged peaks of the Austrian Alps...

He’s Gleaning the Design Rules of Life to Re-Create It

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Say you live in an old house, and you want to make...

Math’s ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’ Has Been Debunked

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Much of mathematics is driven by intuition, by a deep-rooted sense of...