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'Oumuamua Was Neither Comet nor Asteroid...So What Was It?

A Grad Student Solved a Key Quantum Computing Problem

How Are Planets Made? With Very Little Stuff, It Seems

Math Titans Clash Over Epic Proof of the ABC Conjecture

AI Has a Strange New Muse: Our Sense of Smell

Astronomers Have Found the Universe's Missing Matter

Meet The Four-Dimensional Numbers That Led to Modern Algebra

To Heal Wounds, Cells Time-Travel Back to a Fetal State

You Are Getting Sleepy—Tagged Proteins May Point to Why

Scientists Are Developing a Unique Identifier for Your Brain

Decoding the Secrets of Star-Swallowing Black Holes

Loopholes and the 'Anti-Realism' of the Quantum World

The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature

Meet the Woman Who Rocked Particle Physics—Three Times

Slime Molds Remember—But Do They Learn?

This Galactic Collision Shaped the History of the Milky Way

Flattened Fluids Help Us Understand Oceans and Atmospheres

This Mutation Math Shows How Life Keeps on Evolving

Finally, a Problem Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve

The Universe Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It