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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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Researchers Identify ‘Master Problem’ Underlying All Cryptography

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Machine Learning Gets a Quantum Speedup

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Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder Into Century-Old Problem

Researchers Defeat Randomness to Create Ideal Code

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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Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand?

Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures

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Computer Scientists Expand the Frontier of Verifiable Knowledge

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The Hidden Heroines of Chaos

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Cryptography That Is Provably Secure

How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science

Foundations Built for a General Theory of Neural Networks

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Milestone Experiment Proves Quantum Communication Really Is Faster

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Mathematical Simplicity May Drive Evolution’s Speed