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Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. One can ...

After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved. Imagine you’re holding two equal-size dice. Is it possible to bore a tunnel through one die that’s ...

Abstract: Cross-modal 3D shape retrieval is a crucial and widely applied task in the field of 3D vision. Its goal is to construct retrieval representations capable of measuring the similarity between ...

Yang Song, who previously led the strategic explorations team at OpenAI, is the new “research principal” of Meta Superintelligence Labs. The move comes after Zuckerberg went on a hiring blitz earlier ...

Abstract: The segmentation of 3D shapes is a critical aspect of shape analysis. However, most existing methods for 3D shape segmentation treat each face of the original mesh model with equal ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 360 BC, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an arrangement of five geometric shapes: flat-sided solids called polyhedra. These immediately ...

June 2025 is proving to be a busy month for new albums. There’s releases from Addison Rae, Lil Wayne, Little Simz, Turnstile, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Hotline TNT, Yaya Bey, and now, Haim.