The Nothing That Has the Potential to Be Anything
A recent example was published in 2025 by researchers at the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser…
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No One Is Quite Sure Why Ice Is Slippery
They intuited that molecules near the surface behave differently from those deep within the ice.…
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A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science
Computer scientists want to know how many steps a given algorithm requires. For example, any…
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Research Reveals the Optimal Way to Optimize
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In 1939, upon arriving late to…
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This AI Model Can Intuit How the Physical World Works
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Here’s a test for infants: Show…
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The Oceans Are Going to Rise—but When?
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In May 2014, NASA announced at…
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A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.If you want to solve a…
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The New Math of Quantum Cryptography
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Hard problems are usually not a…
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For Algorithms, Memory Is a Far More Powerful Resource Than Time
That classic result was a way to transform any algorithm with a given time budget…