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Audio Edition: Concept Cells Help Your Brain Abstract Information and Build Memories

Individual cells in the brain light up for specific ideas. These concept neurons, once known as “Jennifer Aniston cells,” help us think, imagine and remember episodes from our lives. The story Concept Cells Help Your Brain Abstract Information and Build Memories first appeared on Quanta Magazine.

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  Audio Edition: The Core of Fermat’s Last Theorem Just Got Superpowered

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  Taking the Temperature of Quantum Entanglement

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  How Hard Is It to Untie a Knot?

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  Audio Edition: How a Problem About Pigeons Powers Complexity Theory

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  What Happens When Lakes Stop Mixing

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  Game Theory, Algorithms and High Prices

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  Why Are Waves So Hard to Grasp?

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  Sleep Is Not All or Nothing

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  Audio Edition: A New Proof Smooths Out the Math of Melting

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  The Mystery of Early Universe’s Little Red Dots

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  A Biography of Earth Across the Age of Animals

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  Audio Edition: ‘Paraparticles’ Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle

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  What We Learn From Running ‘Life’ in Reverse

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  The Math of Catastrophe

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  Audio Edition: Quantum Speedup Found for Huge Class of Hard Problems

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  What Can a Cell Remember?