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Computer scientist Lance Fortnow writes that by embracing the computations that surround us, we can begin to understand and tame our seemingly random world.

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Physicists discovered strange supersolids, constructed new kinds of superconductors, and continued to make the case that the ...

For 50 years, physicists have understood current as a flow of charged particles. But a new experiment has found that in at least one strange material, this understanding falls apart. The Quanta ...

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