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Individual cells in the brain light up for specific ideas. These concept neurons, once known as “Jennifer Aniston cells,” ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less ...

In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a ...

Heat is supposed to ruin anything it touches. But physicists have shown that an idealized form of magnetism is heatproof.

A new proof marks the first progress in decades on important cases of the so-called kissing problem. Getting there meant ...

Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal. In the late 19th century, ...

In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.