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Researchers Defeat Randomness to Create Ideal Code

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An illustration that shows words and music from an opera singer going into a listener’s brain.
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The Brain Processes Speech in Parallel With Other Sounds

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An illustration of a cell sitting atop a circuit diagram.
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Biologists Rethink the Logic Behind Cells’ Molecular Signals

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A 3D model showing red plumes in the mantle.
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A Massive Subterranean ‘Tree’ Is Moving Magma to Earth’s Surface

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One Lab’s Quest to Build Space-Time Out of Quantum Particles

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Illustration of various kinds of clocks floating against a pink background.
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The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Clocks

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An artist’s conception of the ways that functional capacities have been mapped to regions of the brain.
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The Brain Doesn’t Think the Way You Think It Does

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Animation of a gemstone flipping up and down between mirror-image states.
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Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real

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How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer.

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Electron microscopy of T4 bacteriophages.
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DNA Has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth.

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The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve

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Artistic representation of water radiolysis supporting life below ground.
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Radioactivity May Fuel Life Deep Underground and Inside Other Worlds

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Photo of Rafflesia arnoldii growing on vines in Indonesian forest.
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DNA of Giant ‘Corpse Flower’ Parasite Surprises Biologists

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A mosaic of five microscope images of igneous rocks. The rocks are dappled with blue, pink, orange and multicolor inclusions.
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Scientists Pin Down When Earth’s Crust Cracked, Then Came to Life

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Graphic of swirling vortex-like patterns called skyrmions.
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A New Twist Reveals Superconductivity’s Secrets

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Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem

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