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New observations of microscopic vortices confirm the existence of a paradoxical phase of matter that may also arise inside ...

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Melanie Mitchell has worked on digital minds for decades. She says they’ll never truly be like ours until they can make analogies. Same or Different? The Question Flummoxes Neural Networks. For all ...

The security system that underlies the internet makes use of a curious fact: You can broadcast part of your encryption to make your information much more secure. The Quanta Newsletter ...

Three years ago, Google’s AlphaFold pulled off the biggest artificial intelligence breakthrough in science to date, accelerating molecular research and kindling deep questions about why we do science.

Across the social and biological sciences, statisticians use a technique that leverages randomness to deal with the unknown.

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