Elliptic Curve 'Murmurations' Found With AI Take Flight

By LYNDIE CHIOU

Mathematicians are working to fully explain unusual behaviors uncovered using artificial intelligence.

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ALGORITHMS

New Breakthrough Brings Matrix Multiplication Closer to Ideal

By STEVE NADIS

By eliminating a hidden inefficiency, computer scientists have come up with a new way to multiply large matrices that's faster than ever.

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Matrix Multiplication
Inches Closer to Mythic Goal
By Kevin Hartnett (2021)

How did cells evolve a process to end their own lives? Recent research suggests that apoptosis, a form of programmed cell death, first arose billions of years ago in bacteria with a primitive sociality.

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Cellular Life, Death
and Everything in Between
By Elizabeth Svoboda (2019)

COSMOLOGY

Fresh X-Rays Reveal a Universe as Clumpy as Cosmology Predicts

By LIZ KRUESI

By mapping the largest structures in the universe, cosmologists have found that a cosmic anomaly appears to be fading away.

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QUANTA SCIENCE PODCAST

Tiny Language Models Come of Age

By BEN BRUBAKER;
Podcast hosted by SUSAN VALOT

To better understand how neural networks learn to simulate writing, researchers trained simpler versions on synthetic children's stories.

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