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‘Unicorn’ Discovery Points to a New Population of Black Holes
...an observational artifact,” said Vicky Kalogera, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University and a leading member of the LIGO team. Recent discoveries are beginning to suggest the latter might be the...
Mathematicians Find a New Class of Digitally Delicate Primes
...Such numbers are called “digitally delicate primes,” and they’re a relatively recent mathematical invention. In 1978, the mathematician and prolific problem poser Murray Klamkin wondered if any numbers like this...
Cosmic Map of Ultrahigh-Energy Particles Points to Long-Hidden Treasures
...of recent advances has significantly narrowed the search. In 2017, the Auger Observatory announced a major discovery. With its 1,600 particle detectors and 27 telescopes dotting a patch of Argentinian...
A Burp or a Blast? Seismic Signals Reveal the Volcanic Eruption to Come
...literal stone’s throw away from the lava flows. A concert recently took place there, with people treating the ridges like the seats of an amphitheater. In both cases, scientists didn’t...
DNA Jumps Between Animal Species. No One Knows How Often.
...more she and her colleagues study the smelt, the clearer the evidence becomes. Nor are the smelt unique. Recent studies of a range of animals — other fish, reptiles, birds...
Same or Different? The Question Flummoxes Neural Networks.
...than humans can, from recognizing cancer in medical imagery to choosing moves in a game of Go. But recent research has shown that CNNs can tell if two simple visual...
New Brain Maps Can Predict Behaviors
...same kind of huge boost that fast, simple genome sequencing brought to genomics. Recent work with C. elegans has demonstrated the power of large-scale connectomics. One experiment showed that it’s...
New Map of Meaning in the Brain Changes Ideas About Memory
...indeed, in some memory processes, something like this does occur. But in recent years, researchers have repeatedly found subtle yet significant differences between visual and memory representations, with the latter...
Machine Learning Becomes a Mathematical Collaborator
Two recent collaborations between mathematicians and DeepMind demonstrate the potential of machine learning to help researchers generate new mathematical conjectures. Mathematicians often work together when they’re searching for insight into...