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Astronomers are reveling in the James Webb Space Telescope’s discoveries about the formative epoch of cosmic history.

Zdeborová now leads the Statistical Physics of Computation Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne.

Three researchers have figured out how to craft a proof that spreads out information while keeping it perfectly secret.

Across the social and biological sciences, statisticians use a technique that leverages randomness to deal with the unknown.

John von Neumann came about as close as humanly possible to embodying the Platonic ideal of a genius. Conversant in ancient Greek by age 6, the Hungarian made significant mathematical advances in his ...

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Until his dying days, the giant of 20th-century physics obsessed over the underpinnings of space and time, and how we can all share the same version of them. When Johnny Wheeler was 4 years old, ...