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While devising a new quantum algorithm, four researchers accidentally established a hard limit on entanglement.

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The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz and the astrophysicist and author Janna Levin interview leading researchers about the great scientific and mathematical questions of our time.

Detecting a graviton — the hypothetical particle thought to carry the force of gravity — is the ultimate physics experiment. Conventional wisdom, however, says it can’t be done. According to one ...

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Melanie Mitchell has worked on digital minds for decades. She says they’ll never truly be like ours until they can make analogies. Same or Different? The Question Flummoxes Neural Networks. For all ...