Quanta Science Podcast
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Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine's articles about mathematics, physics, biology and computer science.
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Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Brain's 'Background Noise' May Explain Value of Shock Therapy
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe's Biggest Magnetic Fields
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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New Clues for What Will Happen When the Sun Eats the Earth
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain and Beyond
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons
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May 29, 2024 |
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In the Gut's 'Second Brain,' Key Agents of Health Emerge
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May 15, 2024 |
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During Pregnancy, a Fake 'Infection' Protects the Fetus
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May 01, 2024 |
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Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Inside Scientists' Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Tiny Language Models Come of Age
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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What Makes Life Tick? Mitochondria May Keep Time for Cells
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Even Synthetic Life Forms With a Tiny Genome Can Evolve
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Selfish, Virus-Like DNA Can Carry Genes Between Species
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Underground Cells Make 'Dark Oxygen' Without Light
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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How the Brain Protects Itself From Blood-Borne Threats
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference.
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Chatbots Don't Know What Stuff Isn't
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Global Microbiome Study Gives New View of Shared Health Risks
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Machines Learn Better if We Teach Them the Basics
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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The Cause of Depression Is Probably Not What You Think
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Ants Live 10 Times Longer by Altering Their Insulin Responses
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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How the Brain Distinguishes Memories From Perceptions
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May 24, 2023 |
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What Causes Alzheimer's? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. (Pt 2)
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May 10, 2023 |
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What Causes Alzheimer's? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. (Pt. 1)
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe's First Stars
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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New Chip Expands the Possibilities for AI
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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How Supergenes Fuel Evolution Despite Harmful Mutations
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Brightest-Ever Space Explosion Reveals Possible Hints of Dark Matter
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Inside the Proton, the 'Most Complicated Thing You Could Possibly Imagine'
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Record-Breaking Robot Highlights How Animals Excel at Jumping
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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A Good Memory or a Bad One? One Brain Molecule Decides.
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Old Problem About Mathematical Curves Falls to Young Couple
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Geometric Analysis Reveals How Birds Mastered Flight
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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How the 'Diamond of the Plant World' Helped Land Plants Evolve
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Protein Blobs Linked to Alzheimer's Affect Aging in All Cells
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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The Brain Has a 'Low-Power Mode' That Blunts Our Senses
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Researchers Achieve 'Absurdly Fast' Algorithm for Network Flow
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Graduate Student's Side Project Proves Prime Number Conjecture
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Physicists Rewrite the Fundamental Law That Leads to Disorder
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Secrets of the Moon's Permanent Shadows Are Coming to Light
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Deep Learning Poised to 'Blow Up' Famed Fluid Equations
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Researchers Identify 'Master Problem' Underlying All Cryptography
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Brain Chemical Helps Signal to Neurons When to Start a Movement
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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This Animal's Behavior Is Mechanically Programmed
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Tiny Galaxies Reveal Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature's Laws
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May 25, 2022 |
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New Map of Meaning in the Brain Changes Ideas About Memory
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May 11, 2022 |
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Machine Learning Gets a Quantum Speedup
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Secrets of Early Animal Evolution Revealed by Chromosome 'Tectonics'
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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A Solution to the Faint-Sun Paradox Reveals a Narrow Window for Life
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Evolution 'Landscapes' Predict What's Next for COVID Virus
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Flying Fish and Aquarium Pets Yield Secrets of Evolution
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Mathematicians Outwit Hidden Number Conspiracy
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder Into Century-Old Problem
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Researchers Defeat Randomness to Create Ideal Code
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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The Brain Processes Speech in Parallel With Other Sounds
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Biologists Rethink the Logic Behind Cells' Molecular Signals
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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A Massive Subterranean ‘Tree’ Is Moving Magma to Earth’s Surface
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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One Lab’s Quest to Build Space-Time Out of Quantum Particles
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Clocks
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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The Brain Doesn’t Think the Way You Think It Does
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer.
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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DNA Has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth.
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Radioactivity May Fuel Life Deep Underground and Inside Other Worlds
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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DNA of Giant ‘Corpse Flower’ Parasite Surprises Biologists
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Scientists Pin Down When Earth’s Crust Cracked, Then Came to Life
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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A New Twist Reveals Superconductivity’s Secrets
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Mathematicians Set Numbers in Motion to Unlock Their Secrets
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Artificial Neural Nets Finally Yield Clues to How Brains Learn
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May 27, 2021 |
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Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Hold Clues to Persistent Mysteries
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May 13, 2021 |
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Rumbles on Mars Raise Hopes of Underground Magma Flows
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Mathematicians Resurrect Hilbert’s 13th Problem
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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A Newfound Source of Cellular Order in the Chemistry of Life
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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The Mystery of Mistletoe’s Missing Genes
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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The New History of the Milky Way
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Quantum Tunnels Show How Particles Can Break the Speed of Light
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Mitochondria May Hold Keys to Anxiety and Mental Health
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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The Hidden Magnetic Universe Begins to Come Into View
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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The Grand Unified Theory of Rogue Waves
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Hidden Computational Power Found in the Arms of Neurons
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Neutrinos Lead to Unexpected Discovery in Basic Math
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand?
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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How Jurassic Plankton Stole Control of the Ocean’s Chemistry
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Fossil DNA Reveals New Twists in Modern Human Origins
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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For Embryo's Cells, Size Can Determine Fate
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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Scientists Debate the Origin of Cell Types in the First Animals
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Wandering Space Rocks Help Solve Mysteries of Planet Formation
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Random Surfaces Hide an Intricate Order
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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What’s in a Name? Taxonomy Problems Vex Biologists
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May 21, 2020 |
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Bacterial Complexity Revises Ideas About ‘Which Came First?’
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May 07, 2020 |
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Ancient DNA Yields Snapshots of Vanished Ecosystems
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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Computer Scientists Expand the Frontier of Verifiable Knowledge
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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The Hidden Heroines of Chaos
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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Heat-Loving Microbes, Once Dormant, Thrive Over Decades-Old Fire
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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Scientists Discover Exotic New Patterns of Synchronization
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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Cryptography That Is Provably Secure
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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The Math That Tells Cells What They Are
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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A World Without Clouds
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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Foundations Built for a General Theory of Neural Networks
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Milestone Experiment Proves Quantum Communication Really Is Faster
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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Mathematical Simplicity May Drive Evolution’s Speed
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Should Evolution Treat Our Microbes as Part of Us?
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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A Universal Law for the ‘Blood of the Earth’
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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Amateur Mathematician Finds Smallest Universal Cover
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Sep 06, 2019 |
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In the Nucleus, Genes’ Activity Might Depend on Their Location
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Aug 29, 2019 |
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Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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The New Science of Seeing Around Corners
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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Major Quantum Computing Advance Made Obsolete by Teenager
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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A Math Theory for Why People Hallucinate
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Jul 05, 2019 |
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Closed Loophole Confirms the Unreality of the Quantum World
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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To Remember, the Brain Must Actively Forget
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature
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May 23, 2019 |
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To Make Sense of the Present, Brains May Predict the Future
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May 09, 2019 |
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Finally, a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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Why Earth’s Cracked Crust May Be Essential for Life
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Overtaxed Working Memory Knocks the Brain Out of Sync
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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A New World’s Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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A Thermodynamic Answer to Why Birds Migrate
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Feb 28, 2019 |
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Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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Oxygen and Stem Cells May Have Reshaped Early Complex Animals
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Jan 03, 2019 |
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To Test Einstein’s Equations, Poke a Black Hole
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Jan 03, 2019 |
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Physicists Find a Way to See the ‘Grin’ of Quantum Gravity
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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Quanta Writers and Editors Discuss Trends in Science and Math
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Nov 22, 2018 |
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Why Don’t Patients Get Sick in Sync? Modelers Find Statistical Clues.
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Nov 08, 2018 |
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Why Artificial Intelligence Like AlphaZero Has Trouble With the Real World
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Oct 25, 2018 |
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Scant Evidence of Power Laws Found in Real-World Networks
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Oct 11, 2018 |
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Smart Swarms Seek New Ways to Cooperate
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Sep 27, 2018 |
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How the Universe Got Its Bounce Back
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Aug 30, 2018 |
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A Domesticated Dingo? No, but Some Are Getting Less Wild
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Aug 09, 2018 |
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Fossil Discoveries Challenge Ideas About Earth’s Start
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Jul 05, 2018 |
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Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations
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Jun 21, 2018 |
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Light-Triggered Genes Reveal the Hidden Workings of Memory
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Jun 07, 2018 |
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Secret Link Uncovered Between Pure Math and Physics
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May 31, 2018 |
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How Bacteria Help Regulate Blood Pressure
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May 10, 2018 |
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Choosy Eggs May Pick Sperm for Their Genes, Defying Mendel’s Law
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Apr 26, 2018 |
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A Zombie Gene Protects Elephants From Cancer
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Apr 12, 2018 |
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Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data
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Mar 29, 2018 |
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Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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Brainless Embryos Suggest Bioelectricity Guides Growth
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Mar 13, 2018 |
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New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Learning
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Mar 01, 2018 |
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Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious
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Feb 16, 2018 |
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Mathematicians Tame Rogue Waves, Lighting Up Future of LEDs
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Feb 01, 2018 |
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Interspecies Hybrids Play a Vital Role in Evolution
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Jan 18, 2018 |
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What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory
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Nov 17, 2017 |
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In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium
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Oct 12, 2017 |
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Pentagon Tiling Proof Solves Century-Old Math Problem
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Sep 21, 2017 |
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Can Microbes Encourage Altruism?
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Aug 31, 2017 |
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Dark Matter Recipe Calls for One Part Superfluid
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Aug 25, 2017 |
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A Puzzle of Clever Connections Nears a Happy End
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Jul 20, 2017 |
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The Thoughts of a Spiderweb
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Jul 13, 2017 |
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How to Quantify (and Fight) Gerrymandering
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Jun 29, 2017 |
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A Long-Sought Proof, Found and Almost Lost
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Jun 01, 2017 |
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A New Blast May Have Forged Cosmic Gold
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May 18, 2017 |
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Why Did Life Move to Land? For the View
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Apr 06, 2017 |
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New Number Systems Seek Their Lost Primes
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Mar 30, 2017 |
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Researchers Tap a Sleep Switch in the Brain
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Mar 16, 2017 |
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Experiment Reaffirms Quantum Weirdness
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Mar 09, 2017 |
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To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics
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Mar 02, 2017 |
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Dividing Droplets Could Explain Life’s Origin
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Feb 23, 2017 |
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Infant Brains Reveal How the Mind Gets Built
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Feb 16, 2017 |
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3-D Fractals Offer Clues to Complex Systems
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Feb 09, 2017 |
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Grand Unification Dream Kept at Bay
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Feb 02, 2017 |
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The Art of Teaching Math and Science
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Jan 26, 2017 |
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The Case Against Dark Matter
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Dec 08, 2016 |
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What Sonic Black Holes Say About Real Ones
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Nov 24, 2016 |
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Giant Genetic Map Shows Life’s Hidden Links
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Nov 17, 2016 |
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How to Cut Cake Fairly and Finally Eat It Too
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Nov 10, 2016 |
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Strange Dark Galaxy Puzzles Astrophysicists
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Oct 27, 2016 |
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Hacker-Proof Code Confirmed
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Oct 20, 2016 |
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Colliding Black Holes Tell New Story of Stars
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Oct 13, 2016 |
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The Neuroscience Behind Bad Decisions
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Sep 22, 2016 |
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What No New Particles Means for Physics
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Sep 15, 2016 |
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A Debate Over the Physics of Time
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Sep 08, 2016 |
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Biologists Search for New Model Organisms
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Aug 18, 2016 |
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Neutrinos Hint of Matter-Antimatter Rift
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Aug 11, 2016 |
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A Bird’s-Eye View of Nature’s Hidden Order
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Aug 05, 2016 |
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How Feynman Diagrams Almost Saved Space
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Jul 28, 2016 |
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The Oracle of Arithmetic
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Jul 21, 2016 |
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New Life Found That Lives Off Electricity
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Jul 07, 2016 |
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Simple Set Game Proof Stuns Mathematicians
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Jun 17, 2016 |
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How Neanderthal DNA Helps Humanity
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Jun 09, 2016 |
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New Support for Alternative Quantum View
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Jun 02, 2016 |
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New Evidence for the Necessity of Loneliness
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May 26, 2016 |
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Tiny Tests Seek the Universe’s Big Mysteries
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May 12, 2016 |
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A Secret Flexibility Found in Life’s Blueprints
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May 05, 2016 |
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Physicists Hunt for the Big Bang’s Triangles
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Apr 28, 2016 |
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Debate Intensifies Over Dark Disk Theory
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Apr 21, 2016 |
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Mapping the Brain to Build Better Machines
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Apr 14, 2016 |
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Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions
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Apr 07, 2016 |
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The Beasts That Keep the Beat
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Mar 31, 2016 |
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A Life in Games
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Mar 24, 2016 |
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Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy
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Mar 24, 2016 |
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After Black Holes Collide, a Puzzling Flash
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Mar 10, 2016 |
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The Quantum Secret to Superconductivity
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Mar 03, 2016 |
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How to Build Life in a Pre-Darwinian World
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Feb 25, 2016 |
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Gravitational Waves Discovered at Long Last
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Feb 18, 2016 |
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Scientists Debate Signatures of Alien Life
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Feb 11, 2016 |
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New Clues to How the Brain Maps Time
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Feb 04, 2016 |
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Quantum Weirdness Now a Matter of Time
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Jan 28, 2016 |
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String Theory Meets Loop Quantum Gravity
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Jan 21, 2016 |
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Landmark Algorithm Breaks 30-Year Impasse
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Jan 14, 2016 |
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Math Quartet Joins Forces on Unified Theory
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Dec 17, 2015 |
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The Incredible Shrinking Sex Chromosome
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Dec 10, 2015 |
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Nature’s Critical Warning System
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Nov 26, 2015 |
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How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains
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Nov 19, 2015 |
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Mongrel Microbe Tests Story of Complex Life
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Nov 12, 2015 |
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Theorists Draw Closer to Perfect Coloring
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Nov 05, 2015 |
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A Twisted Path to Equation-Free Prediction
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Oct 22, 2015 |
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The Mutant Genes Behind the Black Death
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Oct 15, 2015 |
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A New Map Traces the Limits of Computation
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Oct 08, 2015 |
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Visions of Future Physics
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Oct 01, 2015 |
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How the Body’s Trillions of Clocks Keep Time
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Sep 25, 2015 |
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Einstein’s Parable of Quantum Insanity
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Sep 16, 2015 |
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A New Design for Cryptography’s Black Box
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Sep 10, 2015 |
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How Mutant Viral Swarms Spread Disease
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Sep 03, 2015 |
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A Surprise Source of Life’s Code
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Aug 27, 2015 |
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How Life and Luck Changed Earth’s Minerals
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Aug 20, 2015 |
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At Tiny Scales, a Giant Burst on Tree of Life
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Aug 06, 2015 |
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New Letters Added to the Genetic Alphabet
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Jul 30, 2015 |
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The New Laws of Explosive Networks
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Jul 30, 2015 |