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When Overtaxed Working Memory Knocks Your Brain Out of Sync

Questioning Truth, Reality, and Scientific Progress

Stellar Disks Reveal How Planets Get Made

A Classical Math Problem Gets Pulled Into Self-Driving Cars

A New World’s Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine

Artificial Neural Nets Grow Brainlike Cells to Find Their Way

Tough Times for Challengers of Einstein’s Theory of Gravity

An Anti-Aging Pundit Solves a Decades-Old Math Problem

Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos

Trouble Detected in Infamous Dark Matter Signal

Exploring the Mirror Link Between Two Geometric Worlds

New Brain Maps With Unmatched Detail May Change Neuroscience

Why Winning in Rock-Paper-Scissors Isn’t Everything

Whisper From the First Stars Sets Off Loud Dark Matter Debate

In Search of God’s Perfect Proofs

Brainless Embryos Suggest Bioelectricity Guides Growth

Can Machine Learning Find Medical Meaning in a Mess of Genes?

Elusive Higgs-Like State Created in Exotic Materials

How Cells Pack Tangled DNA Into Neat Chromosomes

The Ongoing Battle Between Quantum and Classical Computers