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What Your Brain Is Doing When You’re Not Doing Anything
...Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, recently theorized that all of these functions may be helpful in constructing an internal narrative. In his view, the default mode network helps you think about who...
Inside Scientists’ Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption
...where it will emerge next in the coming months and years, as they did with the recent eruptions. As a start, Halldór Geirsson, a geophysicist at the University of Iceland,...
A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology
...of deformable shapes. On a recent October morning, Rob Kirby stood in front of a roomful of mathematicians and told them not to feel bound by the way he’d done...
A Quantum Trick Implied Eternal Stability. Now the Idea May Be Falling Apart.
...accumulation of evidence peaked in 2014 with a rigorous mathematical proof that quantum patterns could indeed last forever. In recent years, however, the promise of eternally stable quantum structures has...
How Selective Forgetting Can Help AI Learn Better
...things with different words” in different languages, said Yihong Chen, the lead author of the recent paper. “That’s why you have this same high-level reasoning in the model. An apple...
Fresh X-Rays Reveal a Universe as Clumpy as Cosmology Predicts
...on several of cosmology’s big questions. The results include new estimates of the clumpiness of the cosmos — a much-discussed characteristic of late, as other recent measurements have found it...
Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Explain Value of Shock Therapy
...Voytek, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego, said a psychiatrist once told him that the therapy “reboots the brain” — an explanation he found “really unsatisfying.” Recently,...
Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting
Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres. In 2020, scientists detected a gas called phosphine in the...
The Best Qubits for Quantum Computing Might Just Be Atoms
...These superconducting qubits have so far been the hare in the race to full-scale quantum computing. But now there’s a tortoise coming from behind: qubits made from individual atoms. Recent...