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Ducati’s New Superquadro Mono Engine Might Not Feel Faster
Ducati, maker of high-performance engines with fancy valvetrains, has a new high-performance engine with a fancy valvetrain. The unique feature…
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A New Proof Moves the Needle on a Sticky Geometry Problem
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1917, the Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya posed what at…
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The Lawlessness of Large Numbers
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. So far this year, Quanta has chronicled three major advances…
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Computer-aided proof solves the ‘packaging coloring’ problem
However, Heule found the discovery of past results invigorating. It proved that other researchers found the problem important enough to…
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Super dimensional computing reproduces artificial intelligence
wild though With the success of ChatGPT and other major language models, the artificial neural network (ANN) that underpins these…
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‘Epic’ mathematical proof solves the three-bubble problem
Then last fall, Milman took a leave of absence and decided to visit Neeman so the two could focus on…
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The ‘nasty’ geometry breaks the decades-old tiling guesswork
One of the The oldest and simplest problems in geometry have caught mathematicians off guard—and this is not the first…
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A teenager has solved a conundrum about prime numbers that ‘look alike’
Mathematicians want to better understand numbers that closely resemble the most fundamental object in number theory, the prime numbers. It…
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An important particle physics computer program is in danger of becoming obsolete
Recently, I’ve been watching a fellow particle physicist talks about a calculation he’s pushed to new heights of precision. His…
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Your brain uses math to control quick movements
a mouse is running on a treadmill embedded in a virtual reality corridor. In its mind, it found itself gliding…
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