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During fertilization, eggs may play an unexpected role in choosing which sperm offer the best genetic match.
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Choosy Eggs May Pick Sperm for Their Genes, Defying Mendel’s Law

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A Zombie Gene Protects Elephants From Cancer

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A blue person made of code walks down a pink road patterned with hexagons
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Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data

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A wormhole split in two with swirls of blue on one side and swirls of pink on the other with a ringed planet in the background.
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Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes

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Information dog bottleneck
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New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Learning

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Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious

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Interspecies Hybrids Play a Vital Role in Evolution

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Mathematicians Tame Rogue Waves, Lighting Up Future of LEDs

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What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory

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In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium

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15 pentagon tessellations
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Pentagon Tiling Proof Solves Century-Old Math Problem

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Can Microbes Encourage Altruism?

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Dark matter superfluid
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Dark Matter Recipe Calls for One Part Superfluid

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Combinatorics and constellations
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A Puzzle of Clever Connections Nears a Happy End

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Is a spiderweb part of the animal’s mind?
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The Thoughts of a Spiderweb

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Illustration of a salamander
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How to Quantify (and Fight) Gerrymandering

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