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He Seeks Mystery Magnetic Fields With His Quantum Compass
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Game Theory Can Make AI More Correct and Efficient
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Will Better Superconductors Transform the World?
9 days ago
If superconductors — materials that conduct electricity without any resistance — worked...
New AI Tools Predict How Life’s Building Blocks Assemble
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Dogged Dark Matter Hunters Find New Hiding Places to Check
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A Rosetta Stone for Mathematics
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In 1940, from a jailhouse in Rouen, France, André Weil wrote one...
The Mystery of the Missing Multicellular Prokaryotes
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Every organism visible to the naked eye is a mass of genetically...
Scientists Find a Fast Way to Describe Quantum Systems
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18 days ago
Mathematicians like to generalize concepts into higher dimensions. Sometimes this is easy...