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Four-Color Theorem Is Still a Math Favorite

Audio Edition: ‘Reverse Mathematics’ Illuminates Why Hard Problems Are Hard

Does Computer Science Need Computers?

How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World

Audio Edition: A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life

Picking Teams With the Math of Imbalance

What Makes a Fluid a Fluid?

Audio Edition: New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities

Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons?

Why Am I Left-Handed?

Audio Edition: Old ‘Ghost’ Theory of Quantum Gravity Makes a Comeback

A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns

Is Life Just Different?

Audio Edition: ‘World Models,’ an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback

How Many Shuffles Do You Really Need to Randomize Your Deck?

Will We Ever Be Able To Forecast Volcanic Eruptions Like Weather?

Audio Edition: Tiny Tubes Reveal Clues to the Evolution of Complex Life

Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?

How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?

Audio Edition: What Is the Fourier Transform?

The 'Truth Machine' That Is Changing Math

Ecotypes Make the Idea of a Species Even Fuzzier

What Actually Causes Lightning?

Audio Edition: Astrophysicists Find No ‘Hair’ on Black Holes

The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived

Ice Is Way More Complex Than It Seems

Audio Edition: How Distillation Makes AI Models Smaller and Cheaper

Our Immune Systems Are Full of Ancient Weapons

What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?

Audio Edition: The Cells That Breathe Two Ways

Quantum Mechanics Might Be a Secret Key to Secure Communication