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The year’s biggest computer science stories included a new understanding of large language models, and a breakthrough in being able to compute complex quantum systems.
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Nancy Moran explains how colony collapse disorder led her to study the bacteria that live in the guts of bees.
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James Bullock explains why dark matter might be more complicated than astronomers have assumed.