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The Search for What Shook the Earth for Nine Days Straight

By ROBIN GEORGE ANDREWS

Last year, an immense but brief outburst of seismic energy was soon followed by a long hum that made the world ring. Finding its cause took 68 scientists and an assist by the Danish military.

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BIOPHYSICS

The Cellular Secret to Resisting the Pressure of the Deep Sea

By YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU

Cell membranes from comb jellies reveal a new kind of adaptation to the deep sea: curvy lipids that conform to an ideal shape under pressure.

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MACHINE LEARNING

Novel Architecture Makes Neural Networks More Understandable

By STEVE NADIS

By tapping into a decades-old mathematical principle, researchers are hoping that Kolmogorov-Arnold networks will facilitate scientific discovery.

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THE JOY OF WHY

Can Thermodynamics Go Quantum?

Podcast co-hosted by STEVEN STROGATZ

In this episode, the theoretical physicist Nicole Yunger Halpern talks to host Steven Strogatz about how physicists today are reinterpreting concepts such as work, energy and information for a quantum world.

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