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athematics is, at its core, an art. Like painters, musicians or writers, mathematicians create and explore new worlds. They ...

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Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of the theory into a new era of inquiry. “Anomalous” heat flow, which at first ...

Take a jaunt through a jungle of strange neurons underlying your sense of touch, hundreds of millions of years of animal evolution and the dense neural networks of brains and AIs.

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Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major ...

Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time and the latter a point in space, but in both cases the normally ...