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Two celestial bodies orbiting each other trace stable, predictable paths. Add a third, and the system turns chaotic: each body is large enough to bend the others' paths, and a small nudge by one can ...

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Double-slit diffraction remains a foundational problem in wave optics, but most closed-form treatments assume single-wave illumination. In many modern optical systems, multi-wave coherent illumination ...

On Sunday evening, as Spain and Argentina played out the World Cup final, the mathematician Levent Alpöge posted a short message on X. The Jacobian conjecture, he wrote, is false. He thanked a friend ...

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We’re being sold a peculiar future. The story goes like this: Build larger frontier AI models, put them everywhere, make them do everything. Cover the planet (and then space) with data centers. In ...