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Now, three mathematicians have finally provided such a result. Their work not only represents a major advance in Hilbert’s program, ...

“We mostly believe that all the conjectures are true, but it’s so exciting to see it actually realized,” said Ana ...

That classic result was a way to transform any algorithm with a given time budget into a new algorithm with ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.When Todd Sacktor was about to turn 3, his 4-year-old sister ...

Crucially, unlike Io’s odd magnetic field, which seemed to indicate that it concealed an ocean’s worth of fluid, Europa’s own ...

Kauffman argues that biological evolution is thus constantly creating not just new types of organisms but new possibilities for organisms, ...

What exactly is AI Scientist—just a fancy kind of neural net?It’s not a single neural network, but rather an ensemble ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Far from being solo operators, most single-celled microbes are in complex ...

But that wasn’t obvious. They’d have to analyze a special set of functions, called Type I and Type II sums, ...