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Computer Scientists Prove That Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement

By BEN BRUBAKER

While devising a new quantum algorithm, four researchers accidentally established a hard limit on the "spooky" phenomenon.

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NEUROSCIENCE

How Our Longest Nerve Orchestrates the Mind-Body Connection

By R. DOUGLAS FIELDS

The vagus nerve branches profusely from your brain through your organs to marshal bodily functions, including aspects of mind such as mood, pleasure and fear.

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Q&A

Perplexing the Web, One Probability Puzzle at a Time

By ERICA KLARREICH

The mathematician Daniel Litt has driven social media users to distraction with a series of simple-seeming but counterintuitive probability puzzles.

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In this week's episode, theoretical physicist Claudia de Rham and co-host Janna Levin discuss the ways our current understanding of gravity needs to continue to evolve.

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