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Yicong Fu, a first-year Ph.D. student, studies how natural systems like fish gills solve problems that continue to challenge ...

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Researchers from Stanford and UC Berkeley are being celebrated like celebrities for advancing mathematics and developing strategies to find a hypothetical particle.

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AI excels at correlations but lacks physical intuition, creating gaps in real-world reasoning and reliability.