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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love ...

The team members went through a process of incrementally determining what elements and molecules the bacterial strain could grow on. ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.We were once promised self-driving cars and robot maids. Instead, we’ve ...

“LIGO is this huge thing that thousands of people have been thinking about deeply for 40 years,” said Aephraim Steinberg, ...