QUANTUM PHYSICS | ALL TOPICS

Eternal Quantum Stability Runs Into Trouble

By CHARLIE WOOD

A series of advances seemed to promise the impossible: the existence of quantum states that would never, ever fall into disarray. But physicists are now discovering that the pull of disorder may not be so easily overcome.

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DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

'Entropy Bagels' and Other Complex Structures Emerge From Simple Rules

By JORDANA CEPELEWICZ

Simple rules in simple settings continue to puzzle mathematicians, even as they devise intricate tools to analyze them.

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The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set
By Jordana Cepelewicz

THE JOY OF WHY

What Is the Nature
of Time?

Podcast hosted by STEVEN STROGATZ

Time is all around us: in the language we use, in the memories we revisit and in our predictions of the future. But what exactly is it? The physicist and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek joins Steve Strogatz to discuss the fundamental hallmarks of time.

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NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

How Selective Forgetting Can Help AI Learn Better

By AMOS ZEEBERG

Erasing key information during training results in machine learning models that can learn new languages faster and more easily.

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Tiny Language Models
Come of Age
By Ben Brubaker (2023)

EVOLUTION

Mollusk Eyes Reveal How Future Evolution Depends on the Past

By VIVIANE CALLIER

The visual systems of an obscure group of mollusks provide a rare natural example of path-dependent evolution, in which a critical fork in the creatures' past determined their evolutionary futures.

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