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Astronomers Dig Up the Stars That Birthed the Milky Way

By Lyndie Chiou
March 28, 2023
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There once was a cosmic seed that sprouted the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered its last surviving remnants.

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Emmy Murphy Is a Mathematician Who Finds Beauty in Flexibility

By Erica Klarreich
March 27, 2023
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The prize-winning geometer feels most fulfilled when exploring the fertile ground where constraint meets creation.

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The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy

By Patrick Honner
March 24, 2023
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Learn why the quadratic formula works and why quadratics are easier to solve than cubics.

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Wormhole Experiment Called Into Question

By Charlie Wood
March 23, 2023
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Last fall, a team of physicists announced that they had teleported a qubit through a holographic wormhole in a quantum computer. Now another group suggests that’s not quite what happened.

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Bob Metcalfe, Ethernet Pioneer, Wins Turing Award

By Ben Brubaker
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The American researcher was recognized for his central role in inventing, standardizing and commercializing the ubiquitous networking technology.

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Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign?

By Steven Strogatz
March 22, 2023
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Can mathematics handle things that are essentially the same without being exactly equal? Category theorist Eugenia Cheng and host Steven Strogatz discuss the power and pleasures of abstraction.

An illustration of a sequence that avoid arithmetic progression, shown as a blue staircase jumping among numbers from one to forty.
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Surprise Computer Science Proof Stuns Mathematicians

By Leila Sloman
March 21, 2023
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For decades, mathematicians have been inching forward on a problem about which sets contain evenly spaced patterns of three numbers. Last month, two computer scientists blew past all of those results.

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Dinosaur Bone Study Reveals That Not All Giants Grew Alike

By Anna Gibbs
March 20, 2023
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A survey of prehistoric bones reveals that T. rex and some of its cousins had more than one way to reach enormous sizes. Evolution may have preserved that variation in modern animals too.

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The Unpredictable Abilities Emerging From Large AI Models

By Stephen Ornes
March 16, 2023
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Large language models like ChatGPT are now big enough that they’ve started to display startling, unpredictable behaviors.


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