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The Physicist Who Glues Together Universes

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Renate Loll has helped pioneer a radically new approach to quantum gravity. She assumes that the fabric of space-time is a blend of all possible fabrics, and she has developed the computational tools needed to calculate the far-reaching implications of that assumption.

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Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference.

By Yasemin Saplakoglu
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New experiments show that the brain distinguishes between perceived and imagined mental images by checking whether they cross a “reality threshold.”

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Math Patterns That Go On Forever but Never Repeat

By Patrick Honner
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Simple math can help explain the complexities of the newly discovered aperiodic monotile.

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Some Neural Networks Learn Language Like Humans

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Researchers uncover striking parallels in the ways that humans and machine learning models acquire language skills.

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Secret Messages Can Hide in AI-Generated Media

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In steganography, an ordinary message masks the presence of a secret communication. Humans can never do it perfectly, but a new study shows it’s possible for machines.

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How the Brain Distinguishes Memories From Perceptions
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The neural representations of a perceived image and the memory of it are almost the same. New work shows how and why they are different.

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Memories Help Brains Recognize New Events Worth Remembering

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New Proof Finds the ‘Ultimate Instability’ in a Solar System Model

By Jordana Cepelewicz
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For the first time, mathematicians have proved that planetary orbits in a solar system will always be unstable.

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The Tiny Physics Behind Immense Cosmic Eruptions

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A new theory describes how particle interactions fuel fast magnetic reconnection, the process behind solar flares and other astrophysical jets.

machine learning

Chatbots Don’t Know What Stuff Isn’t

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Today’s language models are more sophisticated than ever, but they still struggle with the concept of negation. That’s unlikely to change anytime soon.

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Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse?

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Several areas of physics suggest reasons to think that unobservable universes with different natural laws could lie beyond ours. The theoretical physicist David Kaplan talks with Steven Strogatz about the mysteries that a multiverse would solve.


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