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Everything You See Is a Computational Process, If You Know How to Look
Science
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr challenges the physicist early in his career: Bohr: ...
How the Brain Decides What to Remember
Health
“There has to be some kind of triage to remember what is relevant and forget the rest,” Zugaro said. “Understanding how specific ...
What Came Before the Big Bang?
Science
Robert Brandenberger, a physicist at McGill University who was not involved with the study, said the new paper “sets a new standard ...
The Hunt for Ultralight Dark Matter
Science
If or when SLAC’s planned project, the Light Dark Matter Experiment (LDMX), receives funding—a decision from the Department of Energy is expected ...
NASA’s Quest to Touch the Sun
Science
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Our sun is the best-observed star in the entire universe. We see ...
An Old Abstract Field of Math Is Unlocking the Deep Complexity of Spacecraft Orbits
Science
You can create a graph with the angle as the x-axis and the speed as the y-axis. But since traveling 360 degrees ...
The Mysterious ‘Dark’ Energy That Permeates the Universe Is Slowly Eroding
Science
Beyond DESI, a slew of new instruments are coming online in the coming years, including the 8.4-meter Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile, ...
Scientists Are Unlocking the Secrets of Your ‘Little Brain’
Health
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In recent decades, neuroscience has seen some stunning advances, and yet a ...
Large Language Models’ Emergent Abilities Are a Mirage
Technology
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two years ago, in a project called the Beyond the Imitation Game ...
Never-Repeating Patterns of Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information
Science
This extreme fragility might make quantum computing sound hopeless. But in 1995, the applied mathematician Peter Shor discovered a clever way to ...
