“How we end up with similar circuitry was more flexible than I would have expected,” Zaremba said. “You can build the same circuits from different cell types.”Zaremba and her team also found that ...
By January 2020, Papadimitriou had been thinking about the pigeonhole principle for 30 years. So he was surprised when a playful conversation with a frequent collaborator led them to a simple ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a point of infinite density called a singularity. To explore these ...
