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It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A ...

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Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to understand. Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli brings to the problem a perspective ...

Hypothetical devices that can quickly and accurately answer questions have become a powerful tool in computational complexity ...

Learning a language can’t be that hard — every baby in the world manages to do it in a few years. Figuring out how the process works is another story. Linguists have devised elaborate theories to ...

Common sense has been viewed as one of the hardest challenges in AI. That said, ChatGPT4 has acquired what some believe is an impressive sense of humanity. How is this possible? Listen to this week’s ...

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.