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A Century Later, New Math Smooths Out General Relativity

By Steve Nadis
November 30, 2023
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Mathematicians prove a theorem that illuminates the geometry of universes with tiny amounts of mass.

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The New Quest to Control Evolution

By C. Brandon Ogbunu
November 29, 2023
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Modern scientists aren’t content with predicting how life evolves. They want to shape it.

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Evolving Bacteria Can Evade Barriers to ‘Peak’ Fitness

By Veronique Greenwood
November 28, 2023
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Paradoxically, natural selection can sometimes seem to block organisms from evolving useful adaptations. But a new study of “fitness landscapes” and antibiotic resistance in bacteria shows that life still finds a way.

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Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons

By Charlie Wood
November 27, 2023
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For 50 years, physicists have understood current as a flow of charged particles. But a new experiment has found that in at least one strange material, this understanding falls apart.

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Quantized Academy

Pierre de Fermat’s Link to a High School Student’s Prime Math Proof

By Patrick Honner
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How Fermat’s less famous “little theorem” got mathematicians young and old to play with prime-like Carmichael numbers.

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In the Gut’s ‘Second Brain,’ Key Agents of Health Emerge

By Yasemin Saplakoglu
November 21, 2023
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Sitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which play key roles in digestion and disease that scientists are only just starting to understand.

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Researchers Refute a Widespread Belief About Online Algorithms

By Madison Goldberg
November 20, 2023
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Three computer scientists have disproved a long-standing conjecture about a fundamental problem involving imperfect information.

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The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences

By Alex Stone
November 16, 2023
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Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers — until they’re not. The puzzling patterns have revealed ties to graph theory and prime numbers, awing mathematicians.

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AI System Beats Chess Puzzles With ‘Artificial Brainstorming’

By Stephen Ornes
November 15, 2023
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By bringing together disparate approaches, machines can reach a new level of creative problem-solving.


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