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The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math’s Famed Fractal | Quanta Magazine
For decades, a small group of mathematicians has patiently unraveled the mystery of what was once...
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The Best Neighborhoods for Starting a Life in the Galaxy
Some neighborhoods in the Milky Way may be better suited for making habitable planets than others....
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New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text | Quanta Magazine
Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to...
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Clashing Cosmic Numbers Challenge Our Best Theory of the Universe | Quanta Magazine
As measurements of distant stars and galaxies become more precise, cosmologists are struggling to make sense...
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Math’s ‘Game of Life’ Reveals Long-Sought Repeating Patterns
John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns...
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The Quest for Simple Rules to Build a Microbial Community | Quanta Magazine
Microbiologists are searching for a universal theory of how bacteria form communities based not on their...
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New Kind of Magnetism Spotted in an Engineered Material
In an atomically thin stack of semiconductors, a mechanism unseen in any natural substance causes electrons’...
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‘Magical’ Error Correction Scheme Proved Inherently Inefficient | Quanta Magazine
Locally correctable codes need barely any information to fix errors, but they’re extremely long. Now we...
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Cells Across the Body Talk to Each Other About Aging | Quanta Magazine
Biologists discovered that mitochondria in different tissues talk to each other to repair injured cells. When...
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Evolution: Fast or Slow? Lizards Help Resolve a Paradox. | Quanta Magazine
Why does natural selection appear to happen slowly on long timescales and quickly on short ones?...