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2022's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math
127 views / 0 likes - addedMathematicians made major progress in 2022, solving a centuries-old geometry question called the interpolation problem, proving the best way to minimize the surface area of clusters of three, four and five bubbles, and proving a sweeping statement about h
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The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math
151 views / 0 likes - addedLeslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. The Turing Award-winning computer scientist pioneered the field of distributed systems, where multiple components on different networks coordinate to achieve a common objective. (Internet sea
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James Maynard Solves the Hardest Easy Math Problems
175 views / 0 likes - addedJames Maynard talks about why hes obsessed with prime numbers. Read the full interview here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/james-maynard-solves-the-hardest-easy-math-problems-20200701/Video by Tom Medwell & Jennifer Hsu for Quanta Magazinehttps://www.qua
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Katie Mack Knows How Its All Going to End
143 views / 0 likes - addedKatie Mack describes the most likely scenario for the end of the universe. Read the full interview here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/katie-mack-knows-how-its-all-going-to-end-20200622/Video by J. Adam Huggins & Jennifer Hsu for Quanta Magazinehttps://w
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How Scientists Finally Finished the Human Genome
258 views / 0 likes - addedIn 2003, the Human Genome Project announced that it had successfully sequenced the entire human genome. That wasnt quite true. Nearly 10% of human DNA was still missing from the map. Karen Miga, a geneticist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, co
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The Scientific Problem of Consciousness
120 views / 0 likes - addedAnil Seth wants to understand how minds work. As a neuroscientist at the University of Sussex in England, Seth has seen firsthand how neurons do what they do but he knows that the puzzle of consciousness spills over from neuroscience into other branches o
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Exoplanets: The Astronomer Looking into Alien Worlds
150 views / 0 likes - addedWe know next to nothing about the other 6 billion or so Earth-like exoplanets in the galaxy. With the imminent launch of the largest, most powerful space telescope ever built, Laura Kreidberg is optimistic this will soon change. Kreidberg is the founding
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The Mechanical Secret of a Brainless Animal
175 views / 1 likes - addedTrichoplax adhaerens is a species of placozoa, the simplest animals at the base of the tree of life. It doesn't have a nervous system, yet it exhibits complex behaviors. How is this possible? The answer could illuminate the origins of the nervous systeman
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Inside the Big Reveal of the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
138 views / 0 likes - addedMore than three years after the release of the first-ever image of a black hole, scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) shared an image of Sagittarius A* (pronounced A-star) the supermassive specimen sitting at the center of our own Milky Way g
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How to Build Truly Intelligent AI
159 views / 0 likes - addedMelanie Mitchell, the Davis professor of complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, has worked on digital minds for decades. She says AI will never truly be "intelligent" until it can do something uniquely human: make analogies. Read more at Quanta: https://ww
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Quantum Computers, Explained With Quantum Physics
186 views / 0 likes - addedQuantum computers arent the next generation of supercomputerstheyre something else entirely. Before we can even begin to talk about their potential applications, we need to understand the fundamental physics that drives the theory of quantum computing. (F
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Why Extraterrestrial Life Might Not Be So Alien
154 views / 0 likes - addedOn the website for the department of zoology of the University of Cambridge, the page for Arik Kershenbaum lists his three main areas of research, one of which stands out from the others. Kershenbaum studies Wolves and other canids, Dolphins and cetaceans
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How Cosmic Dust Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
128 views / 0 likes - addedEvery year, roughly 10 particles of space dust land on each square meter of Earths surface. Matthew Genge, a planetary scientist at Imperial College London, specializes in these alien dust grains, known as micrometeorites. They float here from space rocks
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The Extraordinary Math Hidden in Everyday Life
158 views / 0 likes - addedL. Mahadevan is a professor of applied mathematics, physics, and organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard University. He uses mathematics and physics to explore commonplace phenomena, showing that many of the objects and behaviors we take for grante
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'Gravity Is the Law That Makes Everything Happen'
123 views / 0 likes - addedThe theoretical physicist Claudia de Rham explains why gravity is so fundamental to our understanding of everything in the universe. Read the full interview here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/claudia-de-rham-slayed-gravitys-ghosts-20200818/Video by Phil
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Impossible Life Under the Iceon Earth and Beyond
119 views / 0 likes - addedThe microbial ecologist John Priscu of Montana State University discusses what led him to seek life beneath the barren, frozen wastes of Antarctica and how his discoveries there are shaping the search for life on other worlds. Read the full interview here
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The Most Successful Scientific Theory Ever: The Standard Model
136 views / 0 likes - addedThe Standard Model of particle physics is the most successful scientific theory of all time. It describes how everything in the universe is made of 12 different types of matter particles, interacting with three forces, all bound together by a rather speci
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What Is Emergence?
138 views / 0 likes - addedHow do extraordinarily complex emergent phenomena like ants assembling themselves into living bridges, or tiny water and air molecules forming into swirling hurricanes spontaneously arise from systems of much simpler elements? The answer often depends on
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How NASAs Webb Telescope Will Transform Our Place in the Universe
171 views / 0 likes - addedNASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful telescope in the history of humanity, and one of the most ambitious engineering projects ever attempted. It will witness the birth of stars and galaxies at the edge of time and probe alien skies for s
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Why Different Parts of a Coffee Mug Produce Different Pitches
175 views / 0 likes - addedThe Stanford mathematician Tadashi Tokieda demonstrates one of his physics toys: the curious higher and lower notes you hear when tapping a coffee mug with a spoon. Read the full Q&A here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/tadashi-tokieda-collects-math-and-p
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The most important unsolved problem in all of math. The Riemann Hypothesis.
303 views / 0 likes - addedThe Riemann hypothesis is the most notorious unsolved problem in all of mathematics. Ever since it was first proposed by Bernhard Riemann in 1859, the conjecture has maintained the status of the "Holy Grail" of mathematics. In fact, the person who solves
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