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New Proof Settles Decades-Old Bet About Connected Networks
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It started with a bet. In the late 1980s, at a conference...
Can Quantum Gravity Be Created in the Lab?
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Quantum gravity is one of the biggest unresolved and challenging problems in...
Touch, Our Most Complex Sense, Is a Landscape of Cellular Sensors
4 days ago
Like many proud parents, David Ginty has decorated his office with pictures...
To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language
6 days ago
Language isn’t always necessary. While it certainly helps in getting across certain...
‘Paraparticles’ Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle
9 days ago
On a quiet pandemic afternoon in 2021, Zihyuan Wang, then a graduate...
Where Does Meaning Live in a Sentence? Math Might Tell Us.
11 days ago
Growing up, Tai-Danae Bradley had no love for math. In 2008, she...
Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals
13 days ago
Humans tend to put our own intelligence on a pedestal. Our brains...
How a Problem About Pigeons Powers Complexity Theory
16 days ago
They say a bird in the hand is worth two in the...
What Is the True Promise of Quantum Computing?
17 days ago
Quantum computing promises unprecedented speed, but in practice, it’s proven remarkably difficult...
Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex
17 days ago
In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of...
A New Proof Smooths Out the Math of Melting
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Imagine an ice cube floating in a glass of water. Eventually, it...
The High Cost of Quantum Randomness Is Dropping
23 days ago
Nothing is certain in the quantum realm. A particle, for example, can...