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Researchers find evidence that neural systems actively remove memories, suggesting that forgetting m
New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange
A controversial theory suggests that perception, motor control, memory and other brain functions all
Computer scientists have been searching for years for a type of problem that a quantum computer can
Life needs more than water alone. Recent discoveries suggest that plate tectonics has played a criti
Researchers find that when working memory gets overburdened, dialogue between three brain regions br
Astronomers argue that there’s an undiscovered giant planet far beyond the orbit of Neptune. A newly
New modeling studies suggest that birds migrate to strike a favorable balance between their input an
In new computer experiments, artificial-intelligence algorithms can tell the future of chaotic syste
By making the first progress on the “chromatic number of the plane” problem in over 60 years, an ant
Two teams of researchers have made significant progress toward proving the black hole stability conj
An unlikely team offers a controversial hypothesis about what enabled animal life to get more comple
A recently proposed experiment would confirm that gravity is a quantum force. The post Ph
On November 16, 2018, more than 200 readers joined writers and editors from Quanta Magazine for a wi
The long, variable times that some diseases incubate after infection defies simple explanation. An i
The latest artificial intelligence systems start from zero knowledge of a game and grow to world-bea
A new study challenges one of the most celebrated and controversial ideas in network science.
New algorithms show how swarms of very simple robots can be made to work together as a group.
Cosmologists have shown that it’s theoretically possible for a contracting universe to bounce and ex
