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Astronomers thought they had solved the mystery of gamma-ray bursts. A few recent events suggest otherwise. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is âLight Gazingâ by Andrew Langdon.
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For 50 years, physicists have understood current as a flow of charged particles. But a new experiment has found that in at least one strange material, this understanding falls apart. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is âThought Botâ by Audionautix.
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Sitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which play key roles in digestion and disease that scientists are only just starting to understand. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is âRunning Outâ by Patrick Patrikios.
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Cells in the placenta have an unusual trick for activating gentle immune defenses and keeping them turned on when no infection is present. It involves crafting and deploying a fake virus. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is âUnanswered Questionsâ by Kevin MacLeod.
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The discovery that the brain has different systems for representing small and large numbers provokes new questions about memory, attention and mathematics. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is âQuasi Motionâ by Kevin MacLeod.
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The Reykjanes Peninsula has entered a new volcanic era. Innovative efforts to map and monitor the subterranean magma are saving lives. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is âFire Waterâ by Saidbysed.
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A new magnum opus posits the existence of a hidden mathematical link akin to the connection between electricity and magnetism. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is âClover 3â by Vibe Mountain.
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To better understand how neural networks learn to simulate writing, researchers trained simpler versions on synthetic childrenâs stories. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is âThought Botâ by Audionautix.
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Scientists have recently discovered scores of free-floating worlds that defy classification. The new observations have forced them to rethink their theories of star and planet formation. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is âLight Gazingâ by Andrew Langdon.
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Every species develops at its own unique tempo, leaving scientists to wonder what governs their timing. A suite of new findings suggests that cells use basic metabolic processes as clocks. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is âPulseâ by Geographer.
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The telescope conjecture gave mathematicians a handle on ways to map one sphere to another. Now that it has been disproved, the universe of shapes has exploded. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is âSlow Burnâ by Kevin MacLeod.
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By watching âminimalâ cells regain the fitness they lost, researchers are testing whether a genome can be too simple to evolve. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is âHidden Agendaâ by Kevin MacLeod.
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Genetic elements called Mavericks that have some viral features could be responsible for the large-scale smuggling of DNA between species. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is âCloverâ by Vibe Mountain.
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New observations of a faraway rocky world that might have its own magnetic field could help astronomers understand the seemingly haphazard magnetic fields in our own solar system. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is âLight Gazingâ by Andrew Langdon.
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Quantum algorithms can find their way out of mazes exponentially faster than classical ones, at the cost of forgetting the paths they took. A new result suggests that the trade-off may be inevitable. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is âConfusing Discoâ by Birocratic.
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In some deep subterranean aquifers, cells have a chemical trick for making oxygen that could sustain whole underground ecosystems. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is âPulseâ by Geographer.
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To buffer the brain against menaces in the blood, a dynamic, multi-tiered system of protection is built into the brainâs blood vessels. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is âGood Timesâ by Patrick Patrikios.
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Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But recent James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance of the beasts. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is âLight Gazingâ by Andrew Langdon.
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New experiments show that the brain distinguishes between perceived and imagined mental images by checking whether they cross a âreality threshold.â Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is âWhoâs Using Whoâ by The Mini Vandals.
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Todayâs language models are more sophisticated than ever, but they still struggle with the concept of negation. Thatâs unlikely to change anytime soon. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is âHidden Agendaâ by Kevin MacLeod.
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