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Math and Science News from Quanta Magazine View this email in your browser Q&A | ALL TOPICS   How America's Fastest Swimmers Use Math to Win Gold By JORDANA CEPELEWICZ Number theorist Ken Ono is teaching Olympians to swim more efficiently. Read the article PARTICLE PHYSICS   What Could Explain the Gallium Anomaly? By JONATHAN O'CALLAGHAN Physicists have ruled out a mundane explanation for the strange findings of an old Soviet experiment, leaving open the possibility that the results point to a new fundamental particle. Read the article QUANTA SCIENCE PODCAST   New Clues for What Will Happen When the Sun Eats the Earth Podcast hosted by SUSAN VALOT; Story by JONATHAN O'CALLAGHAN To see how Earth might fare in the days of a dying sun, astronomers study sunlike stars as they balloon into red giants. Listen to the podcast Read the article ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE   What Is Machine Learning? By JOHN PAVLUS Neural networks and other forms of machine learning ultimately learn by trial and error, one improvement at a time. Read the article Follow Quanta Unsubscribe | About Quanta | My Bookmarks Privacy Policy | Terms | Contact Us   Copyright © 2024 Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent division of the Simons Foundation Simons Foundation 160 5th Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY 10010