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Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better

The discovery that the brain has different systems for representing small and large numbers...

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Inside Scientists' Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption

The Reykjanes Peninsula has entered a new volcanic era. Innovative efforts to map and monitor the...

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Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory

A new magnum opus posits the existence of a hidden mathematical link akin to the connection...

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Tiny Language Models Come of Age

To better understand how neural networks learn to simulate writing, researchers trained simpler...

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Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit

Scientists have recently discovered scores of free-floating worlds that defy classification. The...

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What Makes Life Tick? Mitochondria May Keep Time for Cells

Every species develops at its own unique tempo, leaving scientists to wonder what governs their...

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An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated

The telescope conjecture gave mathematicians a handle on ways to map one sphere to another. Now...

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Even Synthetic Life Forms With a Tiny Genome Can Evolve

By watching “minimal” cells regain the fitness they lost, researchers are testing whether a...

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Selfish, Virus-Like DNA Can Carry Genes Between Species

Genetic elements called Mavericks that have some viral features could be responsible for the...

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Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism

New observations of a faraway rocky world that might have its own magnetic field could help...

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To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past

Quantum algorithms can find their way out of mazes exponentially faster than classical ones, at...

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Underground Cells Make 'Dark Oxygen' Without Light

In some deep subterranean aquifers, cells have a chemical trick for making oxygen that could...

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How the Brain Protects Itself From Blood-Borne Threats

To buffer the brain against menaces in the blood, a dynamic, multi-tiered system of protection is...

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JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe

Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But recent James...

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Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference.

New experiments show that the brain distinguishes between perceived and imagined mental images by...

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Chatbots Don't Know What Stuff Isn't

Today’s language models are more sophisticated than ever, but they still struggle with the...

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Global Microbiome Study Gives New View of Shared Health Risks

The most comprehensive survey of how we share our microbiomes suggests a new way of thinking...

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Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing

The quantum energy teleportation protocol was proposed in 2008 and largely ignored. Now two...

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How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain

Feelings of loneliness prompt changes in the brain that further isolate people from social...

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Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle

The neocortex of our brain is the seat of our intellect. New data suggests that mammals created...

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