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Analog vs. Digital: The Race Is On To Simulate Our Quantum Universe

By SHALMA WEGSMAN

Recent progress in both analog and digital quantum simulations heralds a future in which quantum computers could simulate — and thereby illuminate — physical phenomena that are far too complex for even the most powerful supercomputers.

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

'World Models,' an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback

By JOHN PAVLUS

You're carrying around in your head a model of how the world works. Will AI systems need to do the same?

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HARMONIC ANALYSIS

What Is the Fourier Transform?

By SHALMA WEGSMAN

Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man's mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of mathematics and physics.

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THE QUANTA PODCAST

Earth's Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth's Surface

Podcast hosted by SAMIR PATEL
with ROBIN GEORGE ANDREWS

Matter that sank to Earth's center when it was a vast magmatic ocean billions of years ago is now, somehow, erupting under an azure sky.

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