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AI Algorithms Are Now Shockingly Good at Doing Science

Astronomers Think They Can Explain Mysterious Cosmic Bursts

As the World Warms, Clouds Could Disappear—Catastrophically

Is the Universe a Hologram? Maybe! This Math Trick Shows How

How the Brain Keeps Its Memories in the Right Order

Clues to Our Unknown Ancestors Are Hiding in Our Genome

Neural Networks Need a Cookbook. Here Are the Ingredients

A Child’s Puzzle Helped Uncover How Magnets Really Work

Exploding Stars May Have Killed Off Prehistoric Predators

Dark Matter Hunters Are Looking Inside Rocks for New Clues

Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code

It's Not a Myth: Quantum Messages Really Can Travel Faster

Confirmed! Scientists Did See Gravitational Waves (Probably)

A New Quantum Paradox Flags Errors in Our View of Reality

The Collector Who Finds Startling Objects in Plain Sight

Unexpectedly Vanishing Quasars Are Mystifying Scientists

The Evolutionary Importance of Neutral vs. Adaptive Genes

How a 4chan Post Helped Solve a 25-Year-Old Math Puzzle

Astronomers Creep to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black Hole

A Huge Achievement in Math Shows the Limits of Symmetries