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- Cracking the Neural Code in Humans https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/03/29/cracking-the-neural-code-in-humans/ 2 comments
- ‘Big Bang Signal’ Could All Be Dust http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140921-big-bang-signal-could-all-be-dust-planck-says/ 5 comments
- Subhash Khot and the Unique Games Conjecture http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-grand-vision-for-the-impossible/ 9 comments
- Mathematical Impressions: Spontaneous Stratification http://www.simonsfoundation.org/multimedia/mathematical-impressions-multimedia/mathematical-impressions-spontaneous-stratification/ 5 comments
- Mathematicians Team Up on Twin Primes Conjecture https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131119-together-and-alone-closing-the-prime-gap/ 94 comments
- Strange New Phase of Matter Created in Quantum Computer Acts Like It Has Two Time Dimensions https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/07/20/strange-new-phase-of-matter-created-in-quantum-computer-acts-like-it-has-two-time-dimensions/ 30 comments compsci
- Massive Halo Finally Explains Stream of Gas Swirling Around the Milky Way https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2020/09/09/massive-halo-finally-explains-stream-of-gas-swirling-around-the-milky-way/ 17 comments space
- Infinitely Long Chains of Hydrogen Atoms Have Surprising Properties, Including a Metallic Phase: By computing the consequences of changing the spacing between the atoms, an international team of researchers found that the hydrogen chain’s properties can be varied in unexpected and drastic ways https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2020/09/14/infinitely-long-chains-of-hydrogen-atoms-have-surprising-properties-including-a-metallic-phase 289 comments science
- George Hart's knot puzzle: Can you make a knotted bracelet like his? https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2013/01/03/mathematical-impressions-knot-possible/ 7 comments math
- ‘Big Bang Signal’ Could All Be Dust - "scientists have shown that the swirl pattern touted as evidence of primordial gravitational waves — ripples in space and time dating to the universe’s explosive birth — could instead all come from magnetically aligned dust" http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140921-big-bang-signal-could-all-be-dust-planck-says/ 139 comments science
- Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani becomes the first woman to win the Fields medal. http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-tenacious-explorer-of-abstract-surfaces/ 184 comments math
- Mathematicians Team Up on Twin Primes Conjecture http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131119-together-and-alone-closing-the-prime-gap/ 6 comments math
- The Game Theory of Life: an algorithm discovered more than 50 years ago in game theory is mathematically identical to the equations used to describe the distribution of genes within a population of organisms. http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140618-the-game-theory-of-life/ 11 comments science
- Pouring a mixture of sand and sugar as an example of symmetry breaking. Video by George Hart. http://www.simonsfoundation.org/multimedia/mathematical-impressions-multimedia/mathematical-impressions-spontaneous-stratification/ 32 comments math
- Time’s Arrow Traced to Quantum Source. http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140416-times-arrow-traced-to-quantum-source/ 18 comments science
- Time’s Arrow Traced to Quantum Source https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140416-times-arrow-traced-to-quantum-source/ 7 comments science
- The Bicycle Pulling Puzzle (x-post from /r/math) https://www.simonsfoundation.org/multimedia/mathematical-impressions-multimedia/the-bicycle-pulling-puzzle/ 24 comments bicycling
- Terence Tao Proposes Fluid New Path in Navier-Stokes Problem https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140224-a-fluid-new-path-in-grand-math-challenge/ 54 comments math
- Chemists Find Possible Precursor to RNA https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140205-chemists-pursue-possible-precursor-to-rna/ 4 comments science
- A New Physics Theory of Life https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/ 3 comments philosophy
- MIT professor proposes a thermodynamic explanation for the origins of life. https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/ 285 comments science
- The Secret Language of Plants: Striking evidence that plants warn each other of environmental dangers is reviving a once ridiculed field. https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131216-the-secret-language-of-plants/ 19 comments science
- Could Knots Unravel Mysteries of Fluid Flow? https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131209-knots-unravel-mysteries-of-fluid-flow/?utm_source=feedly 5 comments math
- To settle Infinity dispute, a new law of logic https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131126-to-settle-infinity-question-a-new-law-of-logic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=20131126-to-settle-infinity-question-a-new-law-of-logic 5 comments philosophy
- To Settle Infinity Dispute, a New Law of Logic https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131126-to-settle-infinity-question-a-new-law-of-logic/ 3 comments science
- Moving Closer to the Twin Primes Conjecture: Gap is Down to 600! https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131119-together-and-alone-closing-the-prime-gap/ 89 comments math
- Michael Freedman video and profile: "I still speak physics with an accent.” https://www.simonsfoundation.org/science_lives_video/michael-freedman/ 3 comments math
- Physicists Eye Quantum-Gravity Interface: “In the final showdown between quantum mechanics and gravity, our understanding of space and time will be completely changed.” https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131031-physicists-eye-quantum-gravity-interface/ 8 comments science
- “If it turns out there is a spherical cow lurking underneath all your data, then TDA would be the way to go. But if it’s not there, what can you do?” https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131004-the-mathematical-shape-of-things-to-come/ 4 comments compsci
- Scientific data sets are becoming more dynamic, requiring new mathematical techniques on par with the invention of calculus. https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131004-the-mathematical-shape-of-things-to-come/ 50 comments math
- “The big question is whether we should take trained computer scientists and teach them the hands-on bench science or whether we should take those physical and natural scientists and teach them CS.” https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130930-imagining-data-without-division/ 73 comments compsci
- Can someone explain the math behind amplituhedrons? https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130917-a-jewel-at-the-heart-of-quantum-physics/ 18 comments math
- Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130917-a-jewel-at-the-heart-of-quantum-physics/?utm_source=feedly 236 comments science
- Quantum Computing Test Offers Boost to Quantum Cryptography "the new interrogation approach offers a potential security boost to quantum cryptography... In principle, quantum cryptography offers 'unconditional' security, guaranteed by the laws of physics" https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130821-the-proof-in-the-quantum-pudding/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=20130821-the-proof-in-the-quantum-pudding 24 comments technology
- Making Music With a Möbius Strip https://www.simonsfoundation.org/multimedia/mathematical-impressions-making-music-with-a-mobius-strip/ 15 comments math
- Do artificial neural networks learn the way we do? https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130723-as-machines-get-smarter-evidence-they-learn-like-us/ 7 comments science
- Quantum Mechanics no longer enough? 'Holographic Duality hints at hidden subatomic world' https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130701-signs-of-a-stranger-deeper-side-to-natures-building-blocks/ 18 comments science
- Signs of a Stranger, Deeper Side to Nature’s Building Blocks https://www.simonsfoundation.org/features/science-news/signs-of-a-stranger-deeper-side-to-natures-building-blocks/ 3 comments science
- Is Nature unnatural? Decades of confounding experiments have physicists considering a startling possibility: the universe might not make sense [cross-post from /r/science) https://www.simonsfoundation.org/features/science-news/is-nature-unnatural/ 250 comments philosophy
- Is Nature unnatural? Decades of confounding experiments have physicists considering a startling possibility: the universe might not make sense https://www.simonsfoundation.org/features/science-news/is-nature-unnatural/ 226 comments science