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Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve?

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Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve?

By PHILIP BALL

Why the phenomenon of decoherence might finally bridge the quantum-classical divide.

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CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
 

Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water

By CHARLIE WOOD

Electrons have been induced to act like fluids, an effort that could illuminate new ways of thinking about quantum systems.

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NEUROSCIENCE
 

Fed on Reams of Cell Data, AI Maps New Neighborhoods in the Brain

By AMBER DANCE

AI is helping neuroscientists organize vast quantities of cells' genetic data in the latest neurobiological cartography effort.

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THE QUANTA PODCAST
 

Mathematicians Want To Make Fluid Equations Glitch Out

Podcast hosted by SAMIR PATEL
with CHARLIE WOOD

Host Samir Patel speaks with staff writer Charlie Wood about the equations that describe our rivers, whirlpools, and breezes — and the "unstable blowups" that mathematicians are probing them for. 

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