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Can Space-Time Be Saved?
...view. Where many physicists specialize, he skips from problem to problem, publishing papers in recent years on (among other things) why satellite orbits might mimic so-called time crystals, how certain...
How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero
...be zero of them.’” In recent years, research started to uncover how the human brain represents numbers, but no one examined how it handles zero. Now two independent studies, led...
In the Quantum World, Even Points of View Are Uncertain
...triggering a surge of recent study. The arguments challenge us to change how we think about two quintessential quantum properties: superposition, where an object can simultaneously be in multiple possible...
Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound
...exclusively at low temperatures, as is currently the case. World-altering technologies — lossless power grids, magnetically levitating vehicles — might follow. The recent spate of discoveries has both compounded the...
Mathematicians Discover New Way for Spheres to ‘Kiss’
...dimension four in 2003. “What they propose is something different.” In fact, their proof is the latest in a spate of recent sphere-packing results that were only possible because mathematicians...
‘Next-Level’ Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability
...In recent years, a third limitation has been percolating through physics — in some ways the most dramatic yet. Physicists have found it in collections of quantum particles, along with...
The High Cost of Quantum Randomness Is Dropping
...theoretical assumptions of cryptography are correct. The proof could open new doors for quantum computing and cryptography research. “Before this recent result on pseudorandom [circuits], we didn’t have good evidence...
To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language
...do reasoning purely in latent space?” Two recent papers suggest that the answer may be yes. In them, researchers introduce deep neural networks that allow language models to continue thinking...
What’s Going On Inside Io, Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon?
Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about geologically active moons. Scott Bolton’s first encounter with...