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A blueprint-like rendering of the biomechanics of a bird wing.
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Geometric Analysis Reveals How Birds Mastered Flight

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Sculpted, latticed structure of a grain of olive pollen.
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How the ‘Diamond of the Plant World’ Helped Land Plants Evolve

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Micrograph of a neuron showing aggregations of tau protein.
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Protein Blobs Linked to Alzheimer’s Affect Aging in All Cells

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The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses

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Aerial view of a complicated interchange full of flowing traffic
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Researchers Achieve ‘Absurdly Fast’ Algorithm for Network Flow

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Graduate Student’s Side Project Proves Prime Number Conjecture

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A curly arrow being straightened out.
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Physicists Rewrite the Fundamental Law That Leads to Disorder

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Secrets of the Moon’s Permanent Shadows Are Coming to Light

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Simulated water particles swirl in an upward vortex.
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Deep Learning Poised to ‘Blow Up’ Famed Fluid Equations

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Illustration of a figure standing between broken orange walls and a blue unbreakable wall with a broken sledgehammer beside it
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Researchers Identify ‘Master Problem’ Underlying All Cryptography

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A video that shows washes of light moving across a model of a human brain.
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Brain Chemical Helps Signal to Neurons When to Start a Movement

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Image of Trichoplax adhaerens moving against a black background.
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This Animal’s Behavior Is Mechanically Programmed

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A grid of 66 galaxies.
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Tiny Galaxies Reveal Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes

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A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws

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New Map of Meaning in the Brain Changes Ideas About Memory

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Photo of an array of metal tubes and glass pieces, with an orange laser cutting horizontally across
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Machine Learning Gets a Quantum Speedup

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