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A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be created in exotic materials.

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Scientists are pursuing materials that can conduct electricity with perfect efficiency under ambient conditions. In this episode, the physicist Siddharth Shanker Saxena tells co-host Janna Levin about ...

The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language.

Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, linguists can use neural networks to explore how people learn. Researchers got ...

When pigeons outnumber pigeonholes, some birds must double up. This obvious statement — and its inverse — have deep ...

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...