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Improving Deep Learning With a Little Help From Physics | Quanta Magazine
Rose Yu has a plan for how to make AI better, faster and smarter — and...
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New Proof Settles Decades-Old Bet About Connected Networks | Quanta Magazine
According to mathematical legend, Peter Sarnak and Noga Alon made a bet about optimal graphs in...
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Can Quantum Gravity Be Created in the Lab? | Quanta Magazine
Quantum gravity could help physicists unite the currently incompatible worlds of quantum mechanics and gravity. In...
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Touch, Our Most Complex Sense, Is a Landscape of Cellular Sensors | Quanta Magazine
Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle...
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To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language | Quanta Magazine
We insist that large language models repeatedly translate their mathematical processes into words. There may be...
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‘Paraparticles’ Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle | Quanta Magazine
A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle —...
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Where Does Meaning Live in a Sentence? Math Might Tell Us. | Quanta Magazine
The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated...
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Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals | Quanta Magazine
Complex neural pathways likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple...
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How a Problem About Pigeons Powers Complexity Theory | Quanta Magazine
When pigeons outnumber pigeonholes, some birds must double up. This obvious statement — and its inverse...
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What Is the True Promise of Quantum Computing? | Quanta Magazine
Despite the hype, it’s been surprisingly challenging to find quantum algorithms that outperform classical ones. In...
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Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex | Quanta Magazine
A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the...
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A New Proof Smooths Out the Math of Melting | Quanta Magazine
A powerful mathematical technique is used to model melting ice and other phenomena. But it has...
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The High Cost of Quantum Randomness Is Dropping | Quanta Magazine
Randomness is essential to some research, but it’s always been prohibitively complicated. Now, we can use...
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The Mysterious Flow of Fluid in the Brain | Quanta Magazine
A popular hypothesis for how the brain clears molecular waste, which may help explain why sleep...
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Three Hundred Years Later, a Tool from Isaac Newton Gets an Update | Quanta Magazine
A simple, widely used mathematical technique can finally be applied to boundlessly complex problems. The post...
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How Metabolism Can Shape Cells’ Destinies | Quanta Magazine
A growing body of work suggests that cell metabolism — the chemical reactions that provide energy...
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How Did Multicellular Life Evolve? | Quanta Magazine
One of the most important events in the history of life on Earth was the emergence...
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Quantum Speedup Found for Huge Class of Hard Problems | Quanta Magazine
It’s been difficult to find important questions that quantum computers can answer faster than classical machines,...
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‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture | Quanta Magazine
The deceptively simple Kakeya conjecture has bedeviled mathematicians for 50 years. A new proof of the...
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New Conversations, Deep Questions, Bold Ideas in Season Four of ‘The Joy of Why’ | Quanta Magazine
Steven Strogatz and Janna Levin return for a new season on major scientific and mathematical questions...
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The Road Map to Alien Life Passes Through the ‘Cosmic Shoreline’ | Quanta Magazine
Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first,...
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Why Do Researchers Care About Small Language Models? | Quanta Magazine
Larger models can pull off greater feats, but the accessibility and efficiency of smaller models make...
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‘Next-Level’ Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability | Quanta Magazine
In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now...
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A New, Chemical View of Ecosystems | Quanta Magazine
Rare and powerful compounds, known as keystone molecules, can build a web of invisible interactions among...