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Studies of neural metabolism reveal our brain’s effort to keep us alive and the evolutionary constraints that sculpted our ...

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By extending the scope of the key insight behind Fermat’s Last Theorem, four mathematicians have made great strides toward ...

Reversible programs run backward as easily as they run forward, saving energy in theory. After decades of research, they may ...

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Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go ...