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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...
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A Mathematician On Creativity, Art, Logic and Language | Quanta Magazine
The recipient of the 2024 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics discusses math as art, math as language,...
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Mollusk Eyes Reveal How Future Evolution Depends on the Past
The visual systems of an obscure group of mollusks provide a rare natural example of path-dependent...
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What Is the Nature of Time? | Quanta Magazine
Time is all around us: in the language we use, in the memories we revisit and...
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‘Entropy Bagels’ and Other Complex Structures Emerge From Simple Rules | Quanta Magazine
Simple rules in simple settings continue to puzzle mathematicians, even as they devise intricate tools to...
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A Quantum Trick Implied Eternal Stability. Now the Idea May Be Falling Apart.
A series of advances seemed to promise the impossible: the existence of quantum states that would...
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Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information | Quanta Magazine
Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are mathematically equivalent to...
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Hyperjumps Math Game | Quanta Magazine
Play Quanta Magazine’s daily interactive math game, Hyperjumps! The post Hyperjumps Math Game first appeared on...
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The Mysterious Math of Billiards Tables | Quanta Magazine
The surprisingly subtle geometry of a familiar game shows how quickly math gets complicated. The post...
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A ‘Lobby’ Where a Molecule Mob Tells Genes What to Do
Highly repetitive regions of junk DNA may be the key to a newly discovered mechanism for...
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How Quickly Do Large Language Models Learn Unexpected Skills?
A new study suggests that so-called emergent abilities actually develop gradually and predictably, depending on how...
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To See Black Holes in Detail, She Uses ‘Echoes’ Like a Bat | Quanta Magazine
The astrophysicist Erin Kara measures time lags in black holes’ X-ray glows, which reveal the complexity...
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Scientists Find Optimal Balance of Data Storage and Time
Seventy years after the invention of a data structure called a hash table, theoreticians have found...
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Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Magnetic Fields
A controversial technique has produced detailed maps of the magnetic fields in colossal galaxy clusters. If...
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What Your Brain Is Doing When You’re Not Doing Anything | Quanta Magazine
When your mind is wandering, your brain’s “default mode” network is active. Its discovery 20 years...
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In a ‘Dark Dimension,’ Physicists Search for Missing Matter | Quanta Magazine
An idea derived from string theory suggests that dark matter is hiding in a (relatively) large...
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What Makes for ‘Good’ Mathematics? | Quanta Magazine
Terence Tao, who has been called the “Mozart of Mathematics,” wrote an essay in 2007 about...