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How ‘Event Scripts’ Structure Our Personal Memories
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After shuffling the cards in a standard 52-card deck, Alex Mullen, a...
After 20 Years, Math Couple Solves Major Group Theory Problem
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In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay...
Catalytic Computing Taps the Full Power of a Full Hard Drive
4 days ago
“Obviously” is a dangerous word, even in scenarios that seem simple. Suppose...
The Largest Sofa You Can Move Around a Corner
8 days ago
If you’ve ever moved into a new home, then you know how...
How Hans Bethe Stumbled Upon Perfect Quantum Theories
10 days ago
By 1928, quantum physicists seemed poised to unravel matter’s final secrets. The...
Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture
12 days ago
Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers...
How Noether’s Theorem Revolutionized Physics
15 days ago
In the fall of 1915, the foundations of physics began to crack...
The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA
17 days ago
DNA is often compared to a written language. The metaphor leaps out...
New Proofs Probe the Limits of Mathematical Truth
19 days ago
The world of mathematics is full of unreachable corners, where unsolvable problems...
Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations
22 days ago
On December 17, 1962, Life International published a logic puzzle consisting of...
How Does Life Happen When There’s Barely Any Light?
24 days ago
Most of life’s engines run on sunlight. Photons filter down through the...
Cosmologists Try a New Way to Measure the Shape of the Universe
26 days ago
Is the universe infinite, Aristotle asked in 350 BCE, “or is this...