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Large blocks of genes conserved through hundreds of millions of years of evolution hint at how the first animal chromosomes came to be.

The triangle angle sum theorem makes working with triangles easy. What happens when you can’t rely on it?

We might have a past faint sun to owe for life’s existence. This has consequences for the possibility of life outside Earth.

The same phenomenon by which an opera singer can shatter a wineglass also underlies the very existence of subatomic particles.

By using hypernetworks, researchers can now preemptively fine-tune artificial neural networks, saving some of the time and expense of training.

Infinite sums are among the most underrated yet powerful concepts in mathematics, capable of linking concepts across math’s vast web.

In a quest to map out a quantum theory of gravity, researchers have used logical rules to calculate how much Einstein’s theory must change. The result matches string theory perfectly.

In computer simulations of possible universes, researchers have discovered that a neural network can infer the amount of matter in a whole universe by studying just one of its galaxies.

For years, intermediate measurements made it hard to quantify the complexity of quantum algorithms. New work establishes that those measurements aren’t necessary after all.