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Number of Distances Separating Points Has a New Bound | Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians have struggled to prove Falconer’s Conjecture, a simple, but far-reaching, hypothesis about the distances between...
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How the Ancient Art of Eclipse Prediction Became an Exact Science | Quanta Magazine
The timing of the total eclipse on April 8, 2024, will be known to within a...
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Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds | Quanta Magazine
A generation of physicists has referred to the dark energy that permeates the universe as “the...
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Overexposure Distorted the Science of Mirror Neurons | Quanta Magazine
After a decade out of the spotlight, the brain cells once alleged to explain empathy, autism...
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Merging Fields, Mathematicians Go the Distance on Old Problem | Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians have illuminated what sets of points can look like if the distances between them are...