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Every year, around 1,000 Type Ia supernovas erupt in the sky. These stellar explosions brighten and then fade away in ...

Physicists have coaxed particles of light into undergoing opposite transformations simultaneously, like a human turning into a werewolf as the ...

In their paper, posted online in late November 2022, a key part of the proof involves showing that, for the ...

The cracks in cosmology were supposed to take a while to appear. But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

Sohl-Dickstein used the principles of diffusion to develop an algorithm for generative modeling. The idea is simple: The algorithm first ...

Supergenes can also complicate the process of mating. In some species, supergenes create a breeding system that in effect has ...

One of the oldest and simplest problems in geometry has caught mathematicians off guard—and not for the first time.Since antiquity, ...

Cosmologists have spent decades striving to understand why our universe is so stunningly vanilla. Not only is it smooth and ...

Mathematicians wanted to better understand these numbers that so closely resemble the most fundamental objects in number theory, the primes. ...

Memory and perception seem like entirely distinct experiences, and neuroscientists used to be confident that the brain produced them differently, ...