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explainers

Why ‘De-Extinction’ Is Impossible (But Could Work Anyway)

By Yasemin Saplakoglu
May 9, 2022
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Several projects are aiming to bring back mammoths and other species that have vanished from the planet. Whether that’s technically possible is beside the point.

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Quantized Columns

What Happens When We Give Animals Our Diseases?

By Tara C. Smith
April 27, 2022
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While it’s understandable to focus on the diseases affecting humans, it’s important to study how our illnesses may affect animals.

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cryptography

Which Computational Universe Do We Live In?

By Erica Klarreich
April 18, 2022
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Cryptographers want to know which of five possible worlds we inhabit, which will reveal whether truly secure cryptography is even possible.

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artificial intelligence

Machine Learning Reimagines the Building Blocks of Computing

By Nick Thieme
March 15, 2022
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Traditional algorithms power complicated computational tools like machine learning. A new approach, called algorithms with predictions, uses the power of machine learning to improve algorithms.

geometry

An Ancient Geometry Problem Falls to New Mathematical Techniques

By Steve Nadis
February 8, 2022
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Three mathematicians show, for the first time, how to form a square with the same area as a circle by cutting them into interchangeable pieces that can be visualized.

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explainers

How the Physics of Resonance Shapes Reality

By Ben Brubaker
January 26, 2022
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The same phenomenon by which an opera singer can shatter a wineglass also underlies the very existence of subatomic particles.

Quantized Columns

Will We Ever Get Rid of COVID-19?

By Tara C. Smith
November 30, 2021
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No matter how much we’d like to eradicate SARS-CoV-2, it may be better to settle for other forms of control.

Orange spheres representing quantum bits.
explainers

How Quantum Computers Will Correct Their Errors

By Katie McCormick
November 16, 2021
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Quantum bits are fussy and fragile. Useful quantum computers will need to use an error-correction technique like the one that was recently demonstrated on a real machine.

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applied math

How Wavelets Allow Researchers to Transform, and Understand, Data

By Alexander Hellemans
October 13, 2021
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Built upon the ubiquitous Fourier transform, the mathematical tools known as wavelets allow unprecedented analysis and understanding of continuous signals.


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