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At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery

By KEVIN HARTNETT

Hannah Cairo found the homeschooling life confining. Then she petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, and at 17 she ended up solving a 40-year-old mystery.

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MEMORY

What Can a Cell Remember?

By CLAIRE L. EVANS

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences.

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Q&A

Why the Key to a Mathematical Life is Collaboration

By RACHEL CROWELL

Fan Chung, who has an Erdős number of 1, discusses the importance of connection — both human and mathematical.

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THE QUANTA PODCAST

When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field

Podcast hosted by SAMIR PATEL
With JAMES PAVLUS

Researchers in "natural language processing" tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer.

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