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IntroductionBy definition, the universe seems like it should be the totality of everything that exists. Yet a variety of arguments emerging from cosmology, particle...
IntroductionPerpetual motion machines are impossible, at least in our everyday world. But down at the level of quantum mechanics, the laws of thermodynamics don’t...
IntroductionOn March 15, intriguing seminar announcements sent rumblings through the field of combinatorics, the mathematical study of counting. Three collaborators planned to give coordinated...
IntroductionFor the first time, researchers have determined how a human olfactory receptor captures an airborne scent molecule, the pivotal chemical event that triggers our...
IntroductionThe first proof that many people ever learn, early in high school, is the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid’s proof that there are infinitely many...
IntroductionIn March 2018 at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, surrounded by his devoted keepers, Sudan the northern white rhino breathed his last. He...
IntroductionThe idea of infinity is probably about as old as numbers themselves, going back to whenever people first realized that they could keep counting...
IntroductionIt’s not an exaggeration to say that every major advance in physics for more than a century has turned on revelations about symmetry. It’s...
A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial IntelligenceAnil Ananthaswamy | Quanta“By imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more...
IntroductionDespite the wild success of ChatGPT and other large language models, the artificial neural networks (ANNs) that underpin these systems might be on the...
IntroductionIn the fall of 2017, Mehtaab Sawhney, then an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined a graduate reading group that set out...
