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Mathematicians Find Long-Sought Building Blocks for Special Polynomials
...of collaborative effort, a recent preprint finally describes the building blocks Hilbert wanted for a broad family of number systems. But the answer relies on some very modern ideas. “It’s...
The Brain Doesn’t Think the Way You Think It Does
...for over 100 years have searched fruitlessly for brain boundaries between thinking, feeling, deciding, remembering, moving and other everyday experiences,” Barrett said. A host of recent neurological studies further confirm...
A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws
...said. In a slew of recent papers, researchers have thrown reductionism to the wind. They’re exploring novel ways in which big and small distance scales might conspire, producing values of...
Wheel Made of ‘Odd Matter’ Spontaneously Rolls Uphill
...who was not involved in making the wheel. “I liked it a lot.” The odd wheel’s unorthodox mode of travel exemplifies a recent trend: Physicists are finding ways to get...
Machine Learning Highlights a Hidden Order in Scents
...absolutely down the rabbit hole,” he said. More recently, as an olfactory neuroscientist for Google Research’s Brain Team, Wiltschko used machine learning to dissect our most ancient and least understood...
After a Quantum Clobbering, One Approach Survives Unscathed
...would be exponentially faster when they were crunched by a quantum computer. Then along came Ewin Tang. As an 18-year-old recent college grad in 2018, she found a new way...
The Unpredictable Abilities Emerging From Large AI Models
...Recent investigations like the one Dyer worked on have revealed that LLMs can produce hundreds of “emergent” abilities — tasks that big models can complete that smaller models can’t, many...
How a DNA ‘Parasite’ May Have Fragmented Our Genes
...of human DNA. How this tremendous, enigmatic variation in intron frequency evolved has stirred debate among scientists for decades. Answers may finally be emerging, however, from recent studies of genetic...
Meet the Eukaryote, the First Cell to Get Organized
All modern multicellular life — all life that any of us regularly see — is made of cells with a knack for compartmentalization. Recent discoveries are revealing how the first...