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Every Tuesday, editor in chief Samir Patel sits down with writers and editors to discuss our most thought-provoking stories in science and math. Audio editions of Quanta’s stories with Susan Valot will appear biweekly on Thursdays.

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The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices

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Quantum Speedup Found for Huge Class of Hard Problems

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Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture

For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time

Computer Scientists Prove That Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement

To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past

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Researchers Achieve ‘Absurdly Fast’ Algorithm for Network Flow

Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem

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Artificial Neural Nets Finally Yield Clues to How Brains Learn

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Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record

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Computer Scientists Expand the Frontier of Verifiable Knowledge

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Cryptography That Is Provably Secure

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Mathematical Simplicity May Drive Evolution’s Speed

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The New Science of Seeing Around Corners

Finally, a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve

Smart Swarms Seek New Ways to Cooperate