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[:eu]‘Digital Alchemist’ Seeks Rules of Emergence[:]
Computational physicist Sharon Glotzer is uncovering the rules by which complex collective phenomena emerge from simple building blocks.
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[:eu]New Number Systems Seek Their Lost Primes[:]
For centuries, mathematicians tried to solve problems by adding new values to the usual numbers. Now they’re investigating the unintended consequences of that tinkering.
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[:eu]Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’[:]
A decades-old method called the “bootstrap” is enabling new discoveries about the geometry underlying all quantum theories.
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[:eu]In Mathematics, ‘You Cannot Be Lied To’[:]
For Sylvia Serfaty, mathematics is all about truth and beauty and building scientific and human connections.
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[:eu]Experiment Reaffirms Quantum Weirdness[:]
Physicists are closing the door on an intriguing loophole around the quantum phenomenon Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.”
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[:eu]To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics[:]
The ancient Greeks argued that the best life was filled with beauty, truth, justice, play and love. The mathematician Francis Su knows just where to find them.
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[:eu]How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder[:]
Life was long thought to obey its own set of rules. But as simple systems show signs of lifelike behavior, scientists are arguing about whether this apparent complexity is all […]
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[:eu]Dividing Droplets Could Explain Life’s Origin[:]
Researchers have discovered that simple “chemically active” droplets grow to the size of cells and spontaneously divide, suggesting they might have evolved into the first living cells.
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[:eu]Graph Isomorphism Vanquished — Again[:]
On January 4, László Babai, a professor at the University of Chicago, sent shock waves through the community by retracting a claim which, back in November 2015, researchers had hailed […]