Skip to content 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 tricky problem, it often ...
Read more The Mystery of How Quasicrystals Form
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals ...
Read more Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this ...
Read more The New Math of Quantum Cryptography
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers ...
Read more These Newly Discovered Cells Breathe in Two Ways
The team members went through a process of incrementally determining what elements and molecules the bacterial strain could grow on. ...
Read more The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. We were once promised self-driving cars and robot maids. Instead, ...
Read more AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work
“LIGO is this huge thing that thousands of people have been thinking about deeply for 40 years,” said Aephraim Steinberg, ...
Read more Efforts to Ground Physics in Math Are Opening the Secrets of Time
Now, three mathematicians have finally provided such a result. Their work not only represents a major advance in Hilbert’s program, ...
Read more A ‘Grand Unified Theory’ of Math Just Got a Little Bit Closer
“We mostly believe that all the conjectures are true, but it’s so exciting to see it actually realized,” said Ana ...
Read more 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 into a new algorithm with ...
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