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How ‘Idle’ Egg Cells Defend Their DNA From Damage | Quanta Magazine
How do immature egg cells maintain genetic quality for decades before they mature? Scientists find unusual...
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Game Theory Can Make AI More Correct and Efficient | Quanta Magazine
Researchers are drawing on ideas from game theory to improve large language models and make them...
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New AI Tools Predict How Life’s Building Blocks Assemble | Quanta Magazine
Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold3 and other deep learning algorithms can now predict the shapes of interacting complexes...
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Dogged Dark Matter Hunters Find New Hiding Places to Check | Quanta Magazine
Perhaps dark matter is made of an entirely different kind of particle than the ones physicists...
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A Rosetta Stone for Mathematics | Quanta Magazine
In 1940 André Weil wrote a letter to his sister, Simone, outlining his vision for translating...
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The Mystery of the Missing Multicellular Prokaryotes | Quanta Magazine
Why have bacteria never evolved complex multicellularity? A new hypothesis suggests that it could come down...
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Scientists Find a Fast Way to Describe Quantum Systems | Quanta Magazine
After years of false starts, a team of computer scientists has found a way to efficiently...
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To Pack Spheres Tightly, Mathematicians Throw Them at Random | Quanta Magazine
Four mathematicians broke a 75-year-old record by finding a denser way to pack high-dimensional spheres. The...
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How a NASA Probe Solved a Scorching Solar Mystery | Quanta Magazine
The outer layers of the sun’s atmosphere are a blistering million degrees hotter than its surface....
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Does AI Know What an Apple Is? She Aims to Find Out. | Quanta Magazine
The computer scientist Ellie Pavlick is translating philosophical concepts such as “meaning” into concrete, testable ideas....
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What Does Milk Do for Babies? | Quanta Magazine
Human nutrition begins with milk, but the wondrous biofluid does much more than feed babies. In...
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Ecologists Struggle to Get a Grip on ‘Keystone Species’ | Quanta Magazine
More than 50 years after Bob Paine’s experiment with starfish, hundreds of species have been pronounced...
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AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities | Quanta Magazine
Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into...
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Mathematicians Marvel at ‘Crazy’ Cuts Through Four Dimensions | Quanta Magazine
Topologists prove two new results that bring some order to the confoundingly difficult study of four-dimensional...
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Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare | Quanta Magazine
A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that...
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Cryptography Tricks Make a Hard Problem a Little Easier | Quanta Magazine
Researchers have shown how to find the simplest description of a data set faster than by...
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Hopes of Big Bang Discoveries Ride on a Future Spacecraft | Quanta Magazine
Physicists and cosmologists will have a new probe of primordial processes when Europe launches the Laser...
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Pleasure or Pain? He Maps the Neural Circuits That Decide. | Quanta Magazine
The work of the neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor has opened up a world of insights into precisely...
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Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits | Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians think abstract tools from a field called symplectic geometry might help with planning missions to...
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How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data? | Quanta Magazine
By apparently overtraining them, researchers have seen neural networks discover novel solutions to problems. The post...
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My Fantastic Voyage at Quanta Magazine | Quanta Magazine
Founding editor-in-chief Thomas Lin looks back at a decade of Quanta journalism and forward to what’s...
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Viruses Finally Reveal Their Complex Social Life | Quanta Magazine
New research has uncovered a social world of viruses full of cheating, cooperation and other intrigues,...
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Can Information Escape a Black Hole? | Quanta Magazine
Black holes are inescapable traps for most of what falls into them — but there can...
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Avi Wigderson, Complexity Theory Pioneer, Wins Turing Award | Quanta Magazine
The prolific researcher found deep connections between randomness and computation and spent a career influencing cryptographers,...