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- Can Psychedelics Improve Mental Health? https://www.quantamagazine.org/ 0 comments
- How do machines ‘grok’ data? https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-machines-grok-data-20240412/ 16 comments
- A student’s desire to get out of a exam led to a compression algorithm https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-lossless-data-compression-works-20230531 127 comments
- From working at Subway to one of the greatest mathematicians (2015) https://www.quantamagazine.org/yitang-zhang-and-the-mystery-of-numbers-20150402 5 comments
- The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature [2018] https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-octonion-math-that-could-underpin-physics-20180720/ 4 comments
- In Times of Scarcity, War and Peace, a Ukrainian Finds the Magic in Math https://www.quantamagazine.org/ukrainian-mathematician-maryna-viazovska-wins-fields-medal-20220705/ 2 comments
- Neural Noise Shows the Uncertainty of Our Memories https://www.quantamagazine.org/neural-noise-shows-the-uncertainty-of-our-memories-20220118/ 10 comments
- Mathematicians Outwit Hidden Number Conspiracy https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-outwit-hidden-number-conspiracy-20220103/ 23 comments
- Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-leaps-long-assumed-to-be-instantaneous-take-time-20190605/ 95 comments
- Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-disprove-conjecture-made-to-save-black-holes-20180517/ 59 comments
- A New World’s Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-worlds-extraordinary-orbit-points-to-planet-nine-20180515/ 51 comments
- A Chemist Shines Light on a Surprising Prime Number Pattern https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-chemist-shines-light-on-a-surprising-prime-number-pattern-20180514/ 8 comments
- Artificial Neural Nets Grow Brainlike Navigation Cells https://www.quantamagazine.org/artificial-neural-nets-grow-brainlike-navigation-cells-20180509/ 47 comments
- What Astronomers Are Learning from Gaia’s New Milky Way Map https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-astronomers-are-learning-from-gaias-new-milky-way-map-20180508/ 15 comments
- First Support for a Physics Theory of Life https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-support-for-a-physics-theory-of-life-20170726/ 66 comments
- A New Spin on the Quantum Brain https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161102-quantum-neuroscience/ 43 comments
- Theorists Draw Closer to Perfect Coloring https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151020-perfect-graph-coloring/ 7 comments
- Cryptographers Devise an Approach for Total Search Privacy | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/cryptographers-devise-an-approach-for-total-search-privacy-20231106/ 4 comments crypto
- New Codes Could Make Quantum Computing 10 Times More Efficient https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-codes-could-make-quantum-computing-10-times-more-efficient-20230825/ 25 comments technology
- Physicists Create a Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-create-a-wormhole-using-a-quantum-computer-20221130/ 130 comments science
- A Numerical Mystery From the 19th Century Finally Gets Solved | Quanta Magazine | Two mathematicians have proven Patterson’s conjecture, which was designed to explain a strange pattern in sums involving prime numbers. https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-numerical-mystery-from-the-19th-century-finally-gets-solved-20220815/ 17 comments math
- Two Weeks In, the Webb Space Telescope Is Reshaping Astronomy | In the days after the mega-telescope started delivering data, astronomers reported exciting new discoveries about galaxies, stars, exoplanets and even Jupiter. https://www.quantamagazine.org/two-weeks-in-the-webb-space-telescope-is-reshaping-astronomy-20220725/ 19 comments space
- Researchers Defeat Randomness to Create Ideal Code https://www.quantamagazine.org/researchers-defeat-randomness-to-create-ideal-code-20211124/ 8 comments compsci
- The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Clocks | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-new-science-of-clocks-prompts-questions-about-the-nature-of-time-20210831/ 3 comments technology
- Mathematicians Explore Mirror Link Between Two Geometric Worlds https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-explore-mirror-link-between-two-geometric-worlds-20180409/ 9 comments programming
- How Gravity Is a Double Copy of Other Forces. An enigmatic connection between the forces of nature is allowing physicists to explore gravity’s quantum side. https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-gravity-is-a-double-copy-of-other-forces-20210504/ 6 comments space
- The Sun Is Stranger Than Astrophysicists Imagined https://www.quantamagazine.org/gamma-ray-data-reveal-surprises-about-the-sun-20190501/ 5 comments space
- [M] Where do you get your stats articles from? https://www.quantamagazine.org/ 7 comments statistics
- What Shape Is the Universe? A New Study Suggests We’ve Got It All Wrong https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-shape-is-the-universe-closed-or-flat-20191104 497 comments technews
- By chopping up large numbers into smaller ones, researchers at the French National Center for Scientific Research have rewritten a fundamental mathematical speed limit. https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-discover-the-perfect-way-to-multiply-20190411/ 6 comments science
- Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 33 | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/sum-of-three-cubes-problem-solved-for-stubborn-number-33-20190326/ 10 comments math
- The (Imaginary) Numbers at the Edge of Reality | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-imaginary-numbers-at-the-edge-of-reality-20181025/ 3 comments math
- Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’: A decades-old method called the “bootstrap” is enabling new discoveries about the geometry underlying all quantum theories. https://www.quantamagazine.org/using-the-bootstrap-physicists-uncover-geometry-of-theory-space-20170223/ 4 comments math
- Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/newfound-wormhole-allows-information-to-escape-black-holes-20171023/ 51 comments science
- Mathematicians Measure Infinities and Find They’re Equal https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-measure-infinities-find-theyre-equal-20170912/ 11 comments nottheonion
- Marjorie Rice, Housewife and Pentagon tiling expert, Dies at 94 https://www.quantamagazine.org/marjorie-rices-secret-pentagons-20170711/ 5 comments math
- Genetic Engineering to Clash With Evolution | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160908-gene-drives-and-evolution/ 3 comments science
- The Mathematical Shape of Things to Come https://www.quantamagazine.org/20131004-the-mathematical-shape-of-things-to-come/ 4 comments programming
- A potent theory has emerged explaining a mysterious statistical law that arises throughout physics and mathematics. https://www.quantamagazine.org/20141015-at-the-far-ends-of-a-new-universal-law/ 9 comments science
- The Physical Origin of Universal Computing https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151027-the-physical-origin-of-universal-computing/ 4 comments compsci
- What does card shuffling have to do with fluid dynamics? https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150414-for-persi-diaconis-next-magic-trick/ 8 comments math
- Is nature inherently probabilistic or is there a concrete quantum reality? https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140624-fluid-tests-hint-at-concrete-quantum-reality/ 162 comments philosophy
Linking pages
- Controversial New Theory Suggests Life Wasn't a Fluke of Biology—It Was Physics | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/controversial-new-theory-suggests-life-wasnt-a-fluke-of-biologyit-was-physics/ 1427 comments
- John Conway, inventor of the Game of Life, has died of COVID-19 | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/john-conway-inventor-of-the-game-of-life-has-died-of-covid-19/ 903 comments
- Mathematicians Make a Major Discovery About Prime Numbers | WIRED http://www.wired.com/2014/12/mathematicians-make-major-discovery-prime-numbers/ 729 comments
- How Dinosaurs Shrank and Became Birds - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-dinosaurs-shrank-and-became-birds/ 336 comments
- The Black Hole Information Paradox Comes to an End | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/the-black-hole-information-paradox-comes-to-an-end/#intcid=_wired-homepage-right-rail_c523db7c-6fb9-43ee-ab88-f22e8c9c90cd_popular4-1 245 comments
- The Mysterious ‘Dark’ Energy That Permeates the Universe Is Slowly Eroding | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/dark-energy-weakening-major-astrophysics-study-finds/ 206 comments
- Gerrymandering Is Illegal, but Only Mathematicians Can Prove It | WIRED https://www.wired.com/2017/04/gerrymandering-illegal-mathematicians-can-prove 183 comments
- The Universe Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/the-universe-is-not-a-simulation-but-we-can-now-simulate-it/ 161 comments
- Does Modern Physics Count as Science? - The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/12/physics-philosophy-string-theory/421569/ 161 comments
- What Protects Elephants from Cancer? | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/a-zombie-gene-protects-elephants-from-cancer/ 156 comments
- Bacteria Use Brainlike Bursts of Electricity to Communicate - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bacteria-use-brainlike-bursts-of-electricity-to-communicate/ 107 comments
- A Math Genius Blooms Late and Conquers His Field | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/a-math-genius-blooms-late-and-conquers-his-field/ 96 comments
- The Math Behind Gerrymandering and Wasted Votes | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/the-math-behind-gerrymandering-and-wasted-votes/ 88 comments
- A Decades-Old Computer Science Puzzle Was Solved in Two Pages | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/a-decades-old-computer-science-puzzle-was-solved-in-two-pages/ 86 comments
- A Science Journal Funded by Peter Thiel Is Running Articles Dismissing Climate Change and Evolution – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/01/a-science-journal-funded-by-peter-thiel-is-running-articles-dismissing-climate-change-and-evolution/ 82 comments
- Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/mathematicians-discover-the-perfect-way-to-multiply/ 70 comments
- Mathematicians Measure Infinities, and Find They're Equal - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-measure-infinities-and-find-theyre-equal/ 67 comments
- Landmark Algorithm Breaks 30-Year Impasse | WIRED http://www.wired.com/2015/12/landmark-algorithm-breaks-30-year-impasse/ 56 comments
- A Retiree Discovers an Elusive Math Proof—And Nobody Notices | WIRED https://www.wired.com/2017/04/elusive-math-proof-found-almost-lost/ 55 comments
- A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All Over the Universe | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/a-bizarre-form-of-water-may-exist-all-over-the-universe/ 54 comments