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The Physics of Cold Water May Have Jump-Started Complex Life

Veronique Greenwood After 30 days, the algae in the middle were still unicellular. As the scientists put algae from thicker and thicker...

‘Gem’ of a Proof Breaks 80-Year-Old Record, Offers New Insights Into Prime Numbers

Jordana Cepelewicz The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Sometimes mathematicians try to tackle a problem head on, and sometimes...

Uncovering Magnetism’s Mysterious Role in the Galaxy

Jay Bennett When were you first drawn to learning about it?I don’t think that was from some deep-seated, lifelong need to study...

The Puzzle of How Large-Scale Order Emerges in Complex Systems

Philip Ball A complex system exhibits emergence, according to the new framework, by organizing itself into a hierarchy of levels that each...

Everything You See Is a Computational Process, If You Know How to Look

Lance Fortnow The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In the movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr challenges the physicist early in his career:Bohr:...

How the Brain Decides What to Remember

Yasemin Saplakoglu “There has to be some kind of triage to remember what is relevant and forget the rest,” Zugaro said. “Understanding...

Cryptographers Are Discovering New Rules for Quantum Encryption

Ben Brubaker The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Say you want to send a private message, cast a secret...

What Came Before the Big Bang?

Steve Nadis Robert Brandenberger, a physicist at McGill University who was not involved with the study, said the new paper “sets a...

Light-Based Chips Could Help Slake AI’s Ever-Growing Thirst for Energy

Amos Zeeberg “What we have here is something incredibly simple,” said Tianwei Wu, the study’s lead author. “We can reprogram it, changing...

How Game Theory Can Make AI More Reliable

Steve Nadis Posing a far greater challenge for AI researchers was the game of Diplomacy—a favorite of politicians like John F. Kennedy...

The Hunt for Ultralight Dark Matter

Lyndie Chiou If or when SLAC’s planned project, the Light Dark Matter Experiment (LDMX), receives funding—a decision from the Department of Energy...

Does String Theory Actually Describe the World? AI May Be Able to Tell

Charlie Wood A group led by string theory veterans Burt Ovrut of the University of Pennsylvania and Andre Lukas of Oxford went...

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