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Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs aren’t ordinary numbers.

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New models suggest that Europa has very little tectonic activity at its seafloor, which is potentially catastrophic news for the hopes of finding alien life within its ocean.