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With ‘Digital Twins,’ The Doctor Will See You Now

July 26, 2024

By creating digital twins of patients, Amanda Randles wants to bring unprecedented precision to medical forecasts.

The Physics of Cold Water May Have Jump-Started Complex Life

July 24, 2024

When seawater gets cold, it gets viscous. This fact could explain how single-celled ocean creatures became multicellular when the planet was frozen during “Snowball Earth,” according to experiments.

Vacuum of Space to Decay Sooner Than Expected (but Still Not Soon)

July 22, 2024

One of the quantum fields that fills the universe is special because its default value seems poised to eventually change, changing everything.

Monumental Proof Settles Geometric Langlands Conjecture

July 19, 2024

In work that has been 30 years in the making, mathematicians have proved a major part of a profound mathematical vision called the Langlands program.

What Are Sheaves?

July 19, 2024

These metaphorical gardens have become central objects in modern mathematics.

Will AI Ever Have Common Sense?

July 18, 2024

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 Joy of Why” with co-host Steven Strogatz.

Tight-Knit Microbes Live Together to Make a Vital Nutrient

July 17, 2024

At sea, biologists discovered microbial partners that together produce nitrogen, a nutrient essential for life. The pair are in the process of merging into a single organism.

‘Sensational’ Proof Delivers New Insights Into Prime Numbers

July 15, 2024

The proof creates stricter limits on potential exceptions to the famous Riemann hypothesis.

What Could Explain the Gallium Anomaly?

July 12, 2024

Physicists have ruled out a mundane explanation for the strange findings of an old Soviet experiment, leaving open the possibility that the results point to a new fundamental particle.

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