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What Came Before the Big Bang?
Robert Brandenberger, a physicist at McGill University who was not involved with the study,...
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Here’s a Clever Way to Uncover America’s Voting Deserts
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In Georgia’s 2020 gubernatorial...
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Google’s Chess Experiments Reveal How to Boost the Power of AI
His group decided to find out. They built the new, diversified version of AlphaZero,...
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A Celebrated Cryptography-Breaking Algorithm Just Got an Upgrade
This is a job for LLL: Give it (or its brethren) a basis of...
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Scientists Just Discovered a New Type of Magnetism
“The very reason that we have magnetism in our everyday lives is because of...
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These Rogue Worlds Upend the Theory of How Planets Form
“We know from direct imaging searches of young stars that very few stars have...
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The Tantalizing Mystery of the Solar System’s Hidden Oceans
And yet, defiantly, these alien seas remain liquid. A Mirror-Wrapped Ocean Scientists suspect that...
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An Invisible ‘Demon’ Lurks in an Odd Superconductor
A few years ago, the researchers decided to put a superconducting metal called strontium...
