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'Predatory behavior': Elite mathematicians clash over OpenAI's 'solution' to million-dollar math problem6 Comments -
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Did OpenAI really crack one of math's hardest unsolved problems — and did it play fair to get there?
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Does water drain in different directions in the Northern and Southern hemispheres?Life's Little Mysteries Earth's rotation can influence a draining vortex. So does that mean water in a drain spirals in opposite directions in different parts of the world?
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'The greatest unknown was how much energy would be released by the weapon': How scientists prepared for the Trinity nuclear testBook excerpt In this excerpt from "Trinity: An Illustrated History of the World’s First Atomic Test," author Emily Seyl looks at the buildup to the 1945 test that changed history. She explores the huge effort to design experiments that would ultimately establish whether the gargantuan explosion in the middle of the desert was a success.
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Does tapping on a soda can really stop it from exploding?Life's Little Mysteries Many people tap their soda cans to prevent them from fizzing over, but does this technique actually work?
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Astronomers spot the closest, fastest star ever seen orbiting our galaxy's monster black holeA star is whipping around the Milky Way's central black hole incredibly fast, setting a record for the tightest orbit ever observed
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Crystal made from 13-sided 'einstein' shape bends light in ways physicists never imagined
Scientists carved a 13-sided shape called an "einstein" into a chip and discovered that it steers light in ways no other crystal does.
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Physicists find a way to control heat in a way once thought impossibleResearchers designed a material that can independently control how it absorbs and emits heat, and it even retains those settings once the power is turned off.
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Richard Feynman's divisive 'reverse sprinkler' problem finally solved by modern lab experimentsScientists have pinned down why a sprinkler spins when it sucks in water instead of spraying it out — a problem that stumped Richard Feynman and has divided physicists for nearly a century.
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Are quasiparticles real?Life's Little Mysteries Given the "quasi" in quasiparticles, do scientists consider them to be real particles?
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Mathematician Hong Wang becomes third woman to win the Fields Medal, one of the world’s most prestigious math prizesHong Wang, a mathematician at New York University, helped solve a decades-old geometry problem and is now the third woman to win math's most prestigious award.
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