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Friday, December 1, 2023
The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Computer Science
Plus: Strange metals spark electric surprises; Bacteria climb adaptive landscapes; Math smooths out general relativity; Can we control evolution?
P vs. NP - The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Computer Science
Video by CHRISTOPHER WEBB YOUNG; Story by BEN BRUBAKER
Is it possible to invent a computer that computes anything in a flash? Or could some problems stump even the most powerful of computers? How complex is too complex for computation? Watch our new computational complexity explainer.
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Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons
By CHARLIE WOOD
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.
A Century Later, New Math Smooths Out General Relativity
By STEVE NADIS
Two mathematicians have proved that, according to general relativity, a version of space-time with successively small amounts of mass will eventually converge to a flat space with zero curvature.
Evolving Bacteria Can Evade Barriers to 'Peak' Fitness
By VERONIQUE GREENWOOD
Mathematical 'fitness landscapes' help biologists predict how organisms might evolve. One of the largest landscapes ever created has revealed secrets behind the hardiness of a common bacterium.
Agriculture was invented by humans who carefully honed desired traits in certain organisms, then bred them to amplify these traits. We now have more advanced methods for tilting evolution in our favor.
