12/20/2019
ICYMI: As conventional dark matter searches continue to come up short, new bizarre-sounding ideas are getting their chance:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/ultra-accurate-clocks-lead-search-for-new-laws-of-physics-20180416/
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12/20/2019
The Collatz conjecture is perhaps the simplest unsolved problem in mathematics. Now, we have the first major advance on the problem in decades:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-terence-tao-and-the-collatz-conjecture-20191211/
12/20/2019
12/20/2019
From the archives: The physicist Asimina Arvanitaki is thinking up ways to search gravitational wave data for evidence of dark matter particles orbiting black holes.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mining-black-hole-collisions-for-new-physics-20160721/
12/20/2019
ICYMI: Scientists are studying bizarre organelles in bacteria — which traditional definitions of the cells say shouldn’t exist — to uncover fundamental principles guiding the evolution of cellular complexity.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/bacterial-organelles-revise-ideas-about-which-came-first-20190612/
12/20/2019
From the archives: How interbreeding among early hominins harmed humans but may have slowed the Neanderthals’ decline.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-downside-to-neanderthal-dna-20160614/
12/19/2019
ICYMI: The hallmark of intelligence is the ability to learn. But researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have recently discovered surprising constraints on our learning abilities. The brain may be highly flexible and adaptive overall, but at least over short time frames, it learns by inefficiently recycling tricks from its neural repertoire rather than rewiring from scratch.
https://buff.ly/2Gxz8ER
12/19/2019
Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Snowflakes | Quanta Magazine
Why do snowflakes look the way they do? The scientific quest to understand their dazzling variety of forms dates back to Johannes Kepler in the 1600s. Now, after observing snow crystals for decades and growing them in the lab, the physicist Kenneth Libbrecht has devised a new model that represents a major step forward in understanding.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/toward-a-grand-unified-theory-of-snowflakes-20191219
Kenneth Libbrecht, the “pope” of snowflake physics, has a new theory to explain their dazzling variety of forms.
12/19/2019
Our latest podcast: Nearly a decade ago, a pair of scientists wrote some equations on a blackboard: a mathematical model of time processing that could explain how the brain creates and maintains a timeline of past events. Almost immediately, lab experiments seemed to verify one half of their framework. But empirical support for the other half remained elusive — until recently.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/podcast
12/19/2019
From the archives: A definitive explanation for why plants evolved spines remains elusive, and human biases compound the problem.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-thorny-truth-about-spine-evolution-20170614/
12/19/2019
ICYMI: Computational complexity is a familiar concept in computer science, but by bringing it into the world of physics, Leonard Susskind may have solved the mystery of black holes’ ever-growing interiors. Susskind hypothesizes that a black hole grows essentially forever in volume because it grows in complexity — meaning information about its initial state becomes increasingly scrambled. If the ideas in Susskind’s recent work prove true, it could shape not only our understanding of how black holes grow, but our understanding of cosmological growth as a whole.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-black-hole-interiors-grow-forever-20181206/
12/19/2019
Our Body as Genetic Patchwork: Helpful or Hurtful? | Quanta Magazine
From the archives: Your DNA is supposed to be your blueprint, your unique master code, identical in every one of your tens of trillions of cells. It is why you are you, indivisible and whole, consistent from tip to toe. But that’s really just a biological fairy tale.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/our-body-as-genetic-patchwork-helpful-or-hurtful-20140821/
Our bodies are a genetic patchwork, possessing variation from cell to cell. Is that a good thing?
12/18/2019
Amie Wilkinson’s Only Constant Is Change | Quanta Magazine
ICYMI: Amie Wilkinson is using dynamical systems to unlock the mathematics of change. The University of Chicago mathematician recently spoke with us about what drew her to the study of dynamics, what it takes to make it as a mathematician, and her evolving role as a mentor.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/amie-wilkinsons-only-constant-is-change-20190613/
Amie Wilkinson searches for exotic examples of the mathematical structures that describe change.
12/18/2019
Famous Fluid Equations Spring a Leak
Since the 1700s mathematicians have used the Euler equations to predict how fluids move. They’ve long suspected the equations sometimes fail. Now a new proof establishes an exact scenario in which that happens. The new work simplifies fluid motion, but still stands as a major accomplishment. It’s the first time mathematicians have found a scenario in which the Euler fluid equations work initially, but then fail.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-makes-euler-equations-blow-up-20191218/
Researchers have spent centuries looking for a scenario in which the Euler fluid equations fail. Now a mathematician has finally found one.
12/18/2019
A Unified Theory of Randomness | Quanta Magazine
From the archives: “You take the most natural objects — trees, paths, surfaces — and you show they’re all related to each other and once you have these relationships, you can prove all sorts of new theorems you couldn’t prove before.” — Scott Sheffield, professor of mathematics at MIT
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-unified-theory-of-randomness-20160802/
Researchers have uncovered deep connections among different types of random objects, illuminating hidden geometric structures.
12/18/2019
ICYMI: As a world-renowned astrophysicist, a member of the House of Lords and a popular author and public speaker, Martin Rees straddles the lines between politics and science. Now, after working in astrophysics for 50 years and publishing over 500 papers — on subjects ranging from galaxy formation, dark matter and the multiverse — Rees has turned his attention toward the future of science and of human civilization. While Rees sees immense potential for further scientific progress, he also sees risks and warns against the irresponsible use of science and technology.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/martin-rees-on-the-future-of-science-and-humanity-20181205/
12/18/2019
From the archives: Scientists have developed new ways to forecast who will bounce back from disease by studying not just the way the immune system fights infections, but how the body repairs itself.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/tolerance-used-to-predict-infections-death-toll-20160830/
12/18/2019
ICYMI: As astronomers watch on, an infant solar system takes shape, providing us with clues about our own solar system’s distant past. An infrared image of this infant solar system, PDS 70b (left), appears more like what astronomers would expect if the planet had a circumplanetary disk (center) than the predictions for a planet alone (right).
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-close-look-at-newborn-planets-reveals-hints-of-infant-moons-20190611/
12/17/2019
Watching Evolution Happen In Two Lifetimes | Quanta Magazine
From the archives: Rosemary and Peter Grant were looking for a place to study evolution when they arrived on Daphne Major, an island in the Galápagos archipelago. They didn't know they had also found their second home for the next 40 years. By studying the island’s finches, they were able to see the birds evolve in real time, even bearing witness to the generation of a new species. Now they’re using modern tools to track evolution in DNA.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/watching-evolution-happen-in-two-lifetimes-20160922/
The biologists Rosemary and Peter Grant have spent four decades on a tiny island in the Galápagos. Their discoveries reveal how new animal species can emerge in just a few generations.
12/17/2019
ICYMI: A controversial theory suggests that perception, motor control, memory and other brain functions all depend on comparisons between ongoing actual experiences and the brain’s modeled expectations.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-make-sense-of-the-present-brains-may-predict-the-future-20180710/
12/17/2019
No Dark Energy? No Chance, Cosmologists Contend | Quanta Magazine
Last month, four researchers reanalyzed supernova data and concluded that a fundamental feature of modern cosmology is wrong. Dark energy — the mysterious antigravitational force pushing the universe apart — isn’t real, they said. Instead, it’s a product of our galaxy’s motion through the cosmos. Now other cosmologists have fired back, charging that the reanalysis was fundamentally flawed. https://www.quantamagazine.org/no-dark-energy-no-chance-cosmologists-contend-20191217
A study challenged the evidence for the mysterious antigravitational force known as dark energy. Then cosmologists shot back.
12/17/2019
From the archives: The story of the universe’s birth could be found in triangles and myriad other shapes in the sky.
https://buff.ly/2BnQJxm
12/17/2019
ICYMI: Electrophysiological recordings of a rat’s brain are displayed in real-time on a monitor at the University of Pernambuco in Brazil. This research has lended new support to the “critical brain” theory, which argued that the brain achieves its aptitude for flexible information-processing by balancing between states of stability and mayhem. The new findings shows that the states are not marked by activity level, but rather by how synchronously neurons fire.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/do-brains-operate-at-a-tipping-point-new-clues-and-complications-20190610/
12/17/2019
First Support for a Physics Theory of Life | Quanta Magazine
From the archives: “Many biophysicists think something like what England is suggesting may well be at least part of life’s story. But whether England has identified the most crucial step in the origin of life depends to some extent on the question: What’s the essence of life?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-support-for-a-physics-theory-of-life-20170726/
Take chemistry, add energy, get life. The first tests of Jeremy England’s provocative origin-of-life hypothesis are in, and they appear to show how order can arise from nothing.
12/16/2019
Bacterial Organelles Revise Ideas About ‘Which Came First?’ | Quanta Magazine
ICYMI: The classic distinction between eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, as it has been taught for decades, is that eukaryotes have complex internal organization and a plethora of membrane-bound organelles for specific functions — and prokaryotes do not. But as a growing list of discoveries proves, prokaryotes do have organelles, and studies of them are yielding fresh insights into the evolution of cellular complexity.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/bacterial-organelles-revise-ideas-about-which-came-first-20190612/
Contrary to popular belief, bacteria have organelles too. Scientists are now studying them for insights into how complex cells evolved.
12/16/2019
From the archives: Solving a difficult math problem is a little like a tough uphill hike, says Sylvia Serfaty. Except you can't always see the path or how far you are from the top. The NYU professor spoke with Quanta about truth and frustration in mathematics.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/sylvia-serfaty-on-mathematical-truth-and-frustration-20170221/
12/16/2019
Sleeping Brain Waves Draw a Healthy Bath for Neurons | Quanta Magazine
During sleep, brain waves open the tap of an obscure “plumbing system” in the brain with a hydraulic assist from the blood. Theories suggest that this may be how harmful toxins are flushed from the neurons. The discovery deepens our understanding of the physiological dynamics of sleep and might someday lead to treatments for neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/sleeping-brain-waves-draw-a-healthy-bath-for-neurons-20191216/
An organized tide of brain waves, blood and spinal fluid pulsing through a sleeping brain may flush away neural toxins that cause Alzheimer’s and other diseases
12/16/2019
ICYMI: Stephen Hawking viewed his proposal for how the universe could have arisen from nothing as his most important idea. That idea is now under attack.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-debate-hawkings-idea-that-the-universe-had-no-beginning-20190606/
12/16/2019
The (Math) Problem With Pentagons | Quanta Magazine
From the archives: Mathematicians have been studying how shapes "tile the plane" for thousands of years. While triangles, squares and hexagons have long been understood, pentagons occupy an area between the inevitable and the impossible. In our Quantized Academy column, master math teacher Patrick Honner breaks down why pentagons cause so much trouble.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-problem-with-pentagons-20171211/
Triangles fit effortlessly together, as do squares. When it comes to pentagons, what gives?
12/16/2019
A Close Look at Newborn Planets Reveals Hints of Infant Moons | Quanta Magazine
ICYMI: A story of cosmic creation is playing out right before our eyes. Researchers have captured images of newborn planets and moons forming within a distant, infant solar system. The discovery could provide clues about the early history of our own solar system.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-close-look-at-newborn-planets-reveals-hints-of-infant-moons-20190611/
Astronomers have discovered a complex planetary system still swirling into existence.
12/16/2019
ICYMI: Stem cells in bone marrow were first identified after World War II, when researchers were trying to treat the survivors of radiation exposure. Later, the stem cell label was given to certain cells found in many other adult tissues, despite the extensive differences among them. Some scientists now argue that the concept of what a stem cell is needs to be reconsidered: Under the right circumstances, almost any cell might show “stemness.”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-defines-a-stem-cell-scientists-rethink-the-answer-20181204/
12/16/2019
ICYMI: This 1670 edition of Diophantus’ Arithmetica includes Fermat's note about his infamous last theorum. Translated, it reads: “It is impossible for a cube to be the sum of two cubes, a fourth power to be the sum of two fourth powers, or in general for any number that is a power greater than the second to be the sum of two like powers. I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition that this margin is too narrow to contain.”
In our latest Quantized column, mathematician Michael Harris discusses why the quest to enhance the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem reflects a deep misunderstanding of the nature of mathematical proof and of the goals of number theory as a whole.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-proof-of-fermats-last-theorem-doesnt-need-to-be-enhanced-20190603/
12/16/2019
Do Brains Operate at a Tipping Point? New Clues and Complications | Quanta Magazine
ICYMI: The “critical brain” hypothesis holds that the brain teeters between states of stability and mayhem. A new experiment supports this idea, while suggesting the phenomenon works differently than expected. Proponents of the “critical brain” theory had argued that the brain achieves its aptitude for flexible information-processing by balancing between states of high and low neural activity. The new findings shows that the states are not marked by activity level, but rather by how synchronously neurons fire.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/do-brains-operate-at-a-tipping-point-new-clues-and-complications-20190610
New experimental results simultaneously advance and challenge the theory that the brain’s network of neurons balances on the knife-edge between two phases.
12/16/2019
ICYMI: We know that quantum mechanics can accurately describe the microscopic world, but a new thought experiment is forcing physicists to reckon with the idea that the theory can’t be applied to everything. The new experiment — centered around measuring the results of a coin flip — can’t be adequately explained without dropping a seemingly commonsense assumption. The assumption that makes the most sense to drop — at least for some — is the idea that quantum mechanics is a universal theory that holds for larger, complex systems as well as microscopic ones.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/frauchiger-renner-paradox-clarifies-where-our-views-of-reality-go-wrong-20181203/
12/15/2019
The simplicity of the Collatz conjecture makes it highly alluring, but real progress on the problem is rare. Now, Terence Tao of UCLA has made the most significant advance in decades. The new proof doesn't resolve the problem completely, but it does prove the conjecture is “almost” true for “almost” all numbers.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-terence-tao-and-the-collatz-conjecture-20191211/
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The Architect of Modern Algorithms
We spoke with Turing Award winner Barbara Liskov about the challenges that came with being one of the first women in her field. https://www.quantamagazine.org/barbara-liskov-is-the-architect-of-modern-algorithms-20191120/
Virginia Trimble Has Seen the Stars
For 16 years, Virginia Trimble read every astronomy paper. We asked her about what she'd like to see solved next. https://www.quantamagazine.org/virginia-trimble-has-seen-the-stars-20191111/
Playing Hide-and-Seek, Machines Invent New Tools
After millions of games, machine learning algorithms found creative solutions and unexpected new strategies that could transfer to the real world.
Curious About Consciousness? Ask the Self-Aware Machines
Hod Lipson is taking baby steps toward an understanding consciousness by studying the ways a robot can learn to “self-model,” or gain an understanding of its body and its environment. https://www.quantamagazine.org/hod-lipson-is-building-self-aware-robots-20190711/
How Neural Networks Work
Neural networks underpin today’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems. How does this vital piece of AI technology work? https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/neural-networks/
A Call for Courage as Physicists Confront Collider Dilemma
Carlo Rubbia shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics for leading the ambitious collider experiment that turned up the W and Z bosons. He says boldness is needed once again. https://www.quantamagazine.org/carlo-rubbia-calls-for-courage-as-physicists-confront-collider-dilemma-20190807/
His Artificial Intelligence Sees Inside Living Cells
Greg Johnson’s computer vision systems can look at unlabeled microscopy images, identify the pictured cellular organelles and build dynamic 3D models of the living cells. He explains what that could mean for biology. https://www.quantamagazine.org/greg-johnsons-artificial-intelligence-sees-inside-living-cells-20190724/
A Mathematician Whose Only Constant Is Change
Amie Wilkinson, a leader in the study of dynamical systems, speaks with us about the mathematics of change. https://www.quantamagazine.org/amie-wilkinsons-only-constant-is-change-20190613/
How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It
Cosmologists find themselves in the awkward position of being stuck inside the very system they’re trying to observe. We spoke with the brilliant — and sometimes controversial — physicist Lee Smolin about how he approaches the problem. https://www.quantamagazine.org/were-stuck-inside-the-universe-lee-smolin-has-an-idea-for-how-to-study-it-anyway-20190627/
The Woman Who Gets Called When a Piece of Mars Falls From the Sky
Planetary geologist Meenakshi Wadhwa uses Martian meteorites to trace the history of our solar system. https://www.quantamagazine.org/its-raining-mars-interview-with-meteor-scientist-meenakshi-wadhwa-20181218/
What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing and the first time humans set foot on the moon. Since then, samples collected from that mission and from following trips to the moon have helped yield major advances in astrophysics and planetary science, but we still have much to learn about our lunar neighbor. In our podcast, we discuss recent evidence that has undercut the classic theory of the moon’s formation and some of the new ideas that are popping up. Want to know more? Listen to "What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory” here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/podcast
Questioning Truth, Reality and the Role of Science
There is value in the dialogue between philosophy and science, argues Michela Massimi. We spoke with Massimi about the way the two fields have contributed to one another. https://www.quantamagazine.org/questioning-truth-reality-and-the-role-of-science-20180524/
The Physics of Glass Opens a Window Into Biology
The physicist Lisa Manning studies the dynamics of glassy materials to understand embryonic development and disease. https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-physics-of-glass-opens-a-window-into-biology-20180611/
Her Key to Modeling Brains: Ignore the Right Details
Thinking like a physicist helps Carina Curto, a mathematician-turned-neuroscientist, pull insights about the human brain out of theoretical models. https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-carina-curto-thinks-like-a-physicist-to-solve-neuroscience-problems-20180619/
To Understand Volcanoes on Other Worlds, Stand On Our Own
Rosaly Lopes has visited dozens of active volcanoes on Earth and discovered even more elsewhere in the solar system. Her work is helping to establish whether volcanoes on distant moons could create conditions friendly to life. https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-understand-volcanoes-on-other-worlds-stand-on-our-own-20180828/
In the Ticking of the Embryonic Clock, She Finds Answers
Renee Reijo Pera has spent decades uncovering how the timing of embryonic development contributes to health and disease. https://www.quantamagazine.org/stem-cell-researcher-renee-reijo-pera-studies-embryonic-clock-20181015/
Prepping for a Flood of Heavenly Bodies
We spoke with Mario Jurić about how a recent swell of data is changing what it means to be an astronomer. https://www.quantamagazine.org/prepping-for-a-flood-of-heavenly-bodies-20181024/
An Italian Cosmologist Who Wanders in Dante’s Dark Wood
A theoretical cosmologist with a knack for narrative, Valeria Pettorino, is aiming to apply the swath of data flooding her field to resolve the plot holes in our story of the cosmos. https://www.quantamagazine.org/cosmologist-valeria-pettorino-wanders-in-dantes-dark-wood-20181113/
A Collector of Math and Physics Surprises
Tadashi Tokieda is exploring the extraordinary properties of seemingly ordinary objects and introducing humanity to nature’s “grand magic show.” https://www.quantamagazine.org/tadashi-tokieda-collects-math-and-physics-surprises-20181127/
On the Best Use of Science to Safeguard Humanity
Martin Rees, the University of Cambridge astrophysicist, Astronomer Royal and popular author, discusses how our society can benefit from future science and technology. https://www.quantamagazine.org/martin-rees-on-the-future-of-science-and-humanity-20181205/
In Ecology Studies and Selfless Ants, He Finds Hope for the Future
Today is the 90th birthday of the widely influential biologist E.O. Wilson. Last month, Quanta spoke with Wilson about his controversial advocacy for group selection in evolution theory and why to him the evidence from natural history and mathematical analysis is undeniable. https://www.quantamagazine.org/edward-o-wilson-finds-hope-in-selfless-ants-and-ecology-studies-20190515/
The Astronomer Who’d Rather Build Space Cameras
Jim Gunn has built instruments for the Hubble Space Telescope and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We spoke to him about what he’s working on next — perhaps his best instrument yet. https://www.quantamagazine.org/jim-gunn-the-astronomer-whod-rather-build-space-cameras-20190418/
In Theory Season 2
Explore some of the most important ideas from cutting-edge, fundamental scientific research when you watch our video series: https://www.quantamagazine.org/videos/playlist/in-theory/
Doudna’s Confidence in CRISPR’s Research Potential Burns Bright
Jennifer Doudna, one of CRISPR’s primary innovators, stays optimistic about how the gene-editing tool will continue to empower basic biological understanding. https://www.quantamagazine.org/doudnas-confidence-in-crisprs-research-potential-burns-bright-20190227/
A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think
Been Kim, a research scientist at Google Brain, is developing a way to ask a machine learning system how much a specific, high-level concept went into its decision-making process. https://www.quantamagazine.org/been-kim-is-building-a-translator-for-artificial-intelligence-20190110/
A Movement to Close the Gender Gap in Mathematics
The Brazilian mathematician Carolina Araujo, who calls herself “a bit of an anarchist,” is organizing meetings and building a support network to study and solve the problems women face in mathematics. https://www.quantamagazine.org/carolina-araujo-is-building-a-network-of-women-in-mathematics-20190122/
An Astrophysicist Who Maps the Universe’s Terra Incognita
Privamvada Natarajan maps the unseen parts of the universe — dark matter, dark energy, and supermassive black holes — which is to say, almost everything. https://www.quantamagazine.org/priyamvada-natarajan-maps-the-invisible-universe-20190204/
She Finds Clues to Future Sustainability in Old Food Webs
By reconstructing prehistoric food webs and analyzing the diverse interactions of humans with other species, the ecologist Jennifer Dunne is developing a new understanding of sustainability through network science.
How Feynman Diagrams Revolutionized Physics
Season 2 of our In Theory video series concludes with the story of Richard Feynman’s crowning achievement — the quantum doodles known as Feynman diagrams.
Brainless Embryos Suggest Bioelectricity Guides Growth
Researchers are building a case that long before the nervous system works, the brain sends crucial bioelectric signals to guide the growth of embryonic tissues. Want to know more? Listen to the podcast here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/podcast
Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos
In new computer experiments, artificial-intelligence algorithms can tell the future of chaotic systems. Want to know more? Listen to our podacst here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/podcast
Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician
By making the first progress on the “chromatic number of the plane” problem in over 60 years, an anti-aging pundit has achieved mathematical immortality. Want to know more? Listen to our podcast "Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician" here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/podcast
A New World’s Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine
A newly discovered object orbits the sun at an odd angle. The best explanation for how it got there? A hidden ninth planet in the distant solar system. Want to know more? Listen to the latest episode of our podcast here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/podcast
A Thermodynamic Answer to Why Birds Migrate
New modeling studies suggest that birds migrate to strike a favorable balance between their input and output of energy. Listen to the podcast here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/podcast
To Test Einstein’s Equations, Poke a Black Hole
What’s shaking in the field of space-time research? Mathematicians are busy poking black holes to make sure Einstein’s equations work out. Listen to our podcast to learn about what they're finding: https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/podcast
What Is Turbulence?
Physicists use the Navier-Stokes equations to describe fluid flows, taking into account viscosity, velocity, pressure and density. But because of turbulence in fluids, proving that the equations always make sense is one of the hardest problems in physics and mathematics. Read about the episode here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-turbulence-is-a-hard-physics-problem-20190128/ Directed by Emily Driscoll and animated by Qais Sarhan for Quanta Magazine
The Year in Quanta
Dive into the best of Quanta's science and math coverage from 2018 with our year-end round ups. Physics: https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantas-year-in-physics-2018-20181221/ Math & Computer Science: https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantas-year-in-math-and-computer-science-2018-20181221/ Biology: https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantas-year-in-biology-2018-20181221/
Available Now: Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire
How did life arise on Earth? What happens when matter approaches a black hole event horizon? How does deep learning work and what can or can’t it do? The biggest mysteries in science and the latest efforts to untangle them are waiting to be explored within the pages of “Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire.” Order your copy today! https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/alice-and-bob-meet-wall-fire
How Complex Wholes Emerge From Simple Parts
Throughout nature, throngs of relatively simple elements can self-organize into behaviors that seem unexpectedly complex. Scientists are beginning to understand why and how these phenomena emerge without a central organizing entity.
Renee Reijo Pera on the Importance of Timing in Embryo Development
Stem cell researcher Renee Reijo Pera of Montana State University explains how the timing of developmental events in the early embryo can subtly affect health many years later. Read the full Q&A here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-the-ticking-of-the-embryonic-clock-she-finds-answers-20181015/ Video by Kristine Paulsen for Quanta Magazine
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