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How learning to share cakes could help stop unfair US elections

Physics

How learning to share cakes could help stop unfair US elections

The “I-Cut-You-Choose” method results in provably fair slices of cake. The same game theory approach can produce fairer voting districts in US states, too

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Beam pointing skywards from observatory

Physics

Light’s quantum weirdness survives after going to space and back

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Physics

AI physicists: The machines cracking the quantum code

Features

Exoplanet and moon

Space

Possible exomoon may be an ocean-covered world as big as Saturn

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Quantum chip artwork

Technology

Google's quantum computing plans threatened by IBM curveball

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Dark energy survives neutron star crash test while rivals fail

Space

Dark energy survives neutron star crash test while rivals fail

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Galaxy

Space

Why our 'freakish' galaxy has got cosmologists seriously worried

Comment

hole sun main

Space

Hiding in plain sight: The mystery of the sun's missing matter

Features

Aerial view of streets and elevated metro line

Physics

Roadside barrier that folds like origami blocks traffic noise

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Illustration of colliding neutron stars

Space

Gravitational waves have let us see huge neutron stars colliding

We’ve taken the first pictures of neutron stars colliding 130 million light years away. The resulting gravitational waves may solve some big cosmic mysteries

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Physics

How to beat the bookies by turning their odds against them

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Space

We can finally map the spiral arm on the far side of the galaxy

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Technology

The blushing Englishman who stole nuclear secrets from the US

Features

Technology

Illuminating India: The genius of making a little go a long way

Culture