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Computing

Building ‘The Matrix’

Simulating new materials could help in building them — but only quantum simulators could fully model reality. A team reports a first step in realizing quantum simulation.

Health & Medicine

A chink in flu’s armor

Finding the shape of a protein that enables the flu virus to replicate points to ways to combat the disease.

Ecosystems

Nomadic ants hunt mushrooms

A species of ants not well understood surprises researchers with a nomadic lifestyle, roaming the rainforest on fungal forays.

Psychology

Core calculations

Number words may serve as mental tools for expanding on basic, nonverbal numerical knowledge rather than as determinants of such knowledge.