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Hopes of Big Bang Discoveries Ride on a Future Spacecraft | Quanta Magazine
Physicists and cosmologists will have a new probe of primordial processes when Europe launches the Laser...
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Pleasure or Pain? He Maps the Neural Circuits That Decide. | Quanta Magazine
The work of the neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor has opened up a world of insights into precisely...
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How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data? | Quanta Magazine
By apparently overtraining them, researchers have seen neural networks discover novel solutions to problems. The post...
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My Fantastic Voyage at Quanta Magazine | Quanta Magazine
Founding editor-in-chief Thomas Lin looks back at a decade of Quanta journalism and forward to what’s...
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Viruses Finally Reveal Their Complex Social Life | Quanta Magazine
New research has uncovered a social world of viruses full of cheating, cooperation and other intrigues,...
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Can Information Escape a Black Hole? | Quanta Magazine
Black holes are inescapable traps for most of what falls into them — but there can...
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Avi Wigderson, Complexity Theory Pioneer, Wins Turing Award | Quanta Magazine
The prolific researcher found deep connections between randomness and computation and spent a career influencing cryptographers,...
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Number of Distances Separating Points Has a New Bound | Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians have struggled to prove Falconer’s Conjecture, a simple, but far-reaching, hypothesis about the distances between...
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How the Ancient Art of Eclipse Prediction Became an Exact Science | Quanta Magazine
The timing of the total eclipse on April 8, 2024, will be known to within a...
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Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds | Quanta Magazine
A generation of physicists has referred to the dark energy that permeates the universe as “the...
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Overexposure Distorted the Science of Mirror Neurons | Quanta Magazine
After a decade out of the spotlight, the brain cells once alleged to explain empathy, autism...
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Merging Fields, Mathematicians Go the Distance on Old Problem | Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians have illuminated what sets of points can look like if the distances between them are...
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The Social Benefits of Getting Our Brains in Sync | Quanta Magazine
Our brain waves can align when we work and play closely together. The phenomenon, known as...
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How Is Flocking Like Computing? | Quanta Magazine
Birds flock. Locusts swarm. Fish school. From chaotic assemblies of life, order somehow emerges. In this...
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The Researcher Who Explores Computation by Conjuring New Worlds | Quanta Magazine
Russell Impagliazzo studies hard problems, the limits of cryptography, the nature of randomness and more. The...
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Topologists Tackle the Trouble With Poll Placement | Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians are using topological abstractions to find places where it’s hard to vote. The post Topologists...
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The Best Qubits for Quantum Computing Might Just Be Atoms | Quanta Magazine
In the search for the most scalable hardware to use for quantum computers, qubits made of...
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Math That Connects Where We’re Going to Where We’ve Been | Quanta Magazine
Recursion builds bridges between ideas from across different math classes and illustrates the power of creative...
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How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute | Quanta Magazine
Large language models do better at solving problems when they show their work. Researchers are beginning...
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Michel Talagrand Wins Abel Prize for Work Wrangling Randomness | Quanta Magazine
The French mathematician spent decades developing a set of tools now widely used for taming random...
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Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting | Quanta Magazine
Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the...
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Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Explain Value of Shock Therapy | Quanta Magazine
Electroconvulsive therapy is highly effective in treating major depressive disorder, but no one knows why it...
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Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton | Quanta Magazine
Long-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of energies, forces and...
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What Is Quantum Teleportation? | Quanta Magazine
Teleporting people through space is still science fiction. But quantum teleportation is dramatically different and entirely...