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‘Monumental’ Math Proof Solves Triple Bubble Problem

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'Monumental' Math Proof Solves Triple Bubble Problem

By ERICA KLARREICH

The decades-old Sullivan's conjecture, about the best way to minimize the surface area of a bubble cluster, was thought to be out of reach for three bubbles and up — until a new breakthrough result.

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NOBEL PRIZE

 

Pioneering Quantum Physicists Win Nobel Prize in Physics

By CHARLIE WOOD

Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments with entangled particles.

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How Bell's Theorem Proved
'Spooky Action at a Distance' Is Real

by Ben Brubaker (2021)

NOBEL PRIZE

 

Geneticist Awarded Nobel Prize for Studies
of Extinct Hominins

By YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU

Svante Pääbo has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for studying our extinct ancestors' DNA.

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Related: 
Fossil DNA Reveals New Twists
in Modern Human Origins

by Jordana Cepelewicz (2019)

NOBEL PRIZE

 

Molecule-Building Innovators Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

By YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU

The chemists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless were recognized for their development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

 

What Makes Physics Beautiful, According to a Nobel Prize Winner

Video by EMILY BUDER

Frank Wilczek has been at the forefront of theoretical physics for the past 50 years. Wilczek describes what he believes to be the most beautiful equations in physics.

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AI researchers have applied AlphaZero's game-playing expertise to an important problem in mathematics: finding efficient algorithms to multiply two matrices. Will Douglas Heaven reports for MIT Technology Review. Mathematicians have steadily improved their matrix-multiplication algorithms since the 1960s. In 2021 Kevin Hartnett wrote for Quanta about a new algorithm that approached the ideal speed known as "exponent two."
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