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Zdeborová now leads the Statistical Physics of Computation Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne.

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Across the social and biological sciences, statisticians use a technique that leverages randomness to deal with the unknown.

Three researchers have figured out how to craft a proof that spreads out information while keeping it perfectly secret.

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Three years ago, Google’s AlphaFold pulled off the biggest artificial intelligence breakthrough in science to date, accelerating molecular research and kindling deep questions about why we do science.