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Astronomers are reveling in the James Webb Space Telescope’s discoveries about the formative epoch of cosmic history.
Zdeborová now leads the Statistical Physics of Computation Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne.
Three researchers have figured out how to craft a proof that spreads out information while keeping it perfectly secret.
Data is almost always incomplete. Patients drop out of clinical trials and survey respondents skip questions; schools fail to report scores, and governments ignore elements of their economies. When ...
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A mysterious phenomenon known as duality often leads to new discoveries in physics. This time, space-time itself can sometimes be two things at once.