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Student Solves a Long-Standing Problem About the Limits of Addition
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most ...
How the Universe and Its Mirrored Version Are Different
Kitty couldn’t have digested looking-glass milk. Worse, if it had contained any bacteria with the opposite handedness, her immune system ...
A New Law of Nature Attempts to Explain the Complexity of the Universe
Kauffman argues that biological evolution is thus constantly creating not just new types of organisms but new possibilities for organisms, ...
The Quest to Prove the Existence of a New Type of Quantum Particle
When you swap two paraparticles, these hidden properties change in tandem. As an analogy, imagine that these properties are colors. ...
Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice
“How we end up with similar circuitry was more flexible than I would have expected,” Zaremba said. “You can build ...
Why Pigeons at Rest Are at the Center of Complexity Theory
By January 2020, Papadimitriou had been thinking about the pigeonhole principle for 30 years. So he was surprised when a ...
Scientists Are Mapping the Bizarre, Chaotic Spacetime Inside Black Holes
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the beginning of time and the center of every ...
Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Large language models work well because they’re so large. The ...
Why Adding a Full Hard Drive Can Make a Computer More Powerful
Those are pretty stringent constraints, so it wasn’t obvious that the extra memory could ever prove useful. But to their ...
A Math Couple Solves a Major Group Theory Problem—After 20 Years of Work
But one of Malle’s graduate students was on the case. Britta Späth. “Our Obsession” In 2003, Späth arrived at the ...
