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Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later, her insights continue to shape physics.
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Tensors are instrumental in physics, machine learning and even biology. Einstein once begged a friend to help him understand them, fearing he was going mad. https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-geometric-tool-that-solved-einsteins-relativity-problem-20240812/
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Tensors are instrumental in physics, machine learning and even biology. Einstein once begged a friend to help him understand them, fearing he was going mad. https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-geometric-tool-that-solved-einsteins-relativity-problem-20240812/
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How a Biofilm’s Strange Shape Emerges From Cellular Geometry | Quanta Magazine
Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular collectives can lead to emergent physical traits.
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Ou plutôt des représentations mathématiques de la structure de nœuds complexes, qui permet de les étudier et les classifier.
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Ou plutôt des représentations mathématiques de la structure de nœuds complexes, qui permet de les étudier et les classifier.
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Ce que vous voyez ci-dessous, ce sont... des nœuds.
Ou plutôt des représentations mathématiques de la structure de nœuds complexes, qui permet de les étudier et les classifier.
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Ou plutôt des représentations mathématiques de la structure de nœuds complexes, qui permet de les étudier et les classifier.
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Someone once said, "Cognition is all about the rhythms."
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The heartbeat and other bodily processes play a surprising role in shaping perception and cognition. https://t.co/vzQegTgSOn
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Someone once said, "Cognition is all about the rhythms."
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AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That’s OK | Quanta Magazine
The brain’s astounding cellular diversity and networked complexity could show how to make AI better.
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Bacteria have likely been building bridges between each other all along. But biologists are only just figuring that out now.
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Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is far more interconnected than anyone realized.
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Ewin Tang went to college at 14. As a senior, she upended a claim about quantum computers by proving that a classical algorithm could outperform its quantum counterpart. Catch my convo with Ewin on this week’s episode of “The Joy of Why,” from @quantamagazine
So far, classical computers perform most tasks better than quantum computers can. In a new episode of “The Joy of Why,” computer scientist Ewan Tang speaks with co-host Janna Levin about the effort to understand the limitations of quantum machines. www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-the-...
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Despite the hype, it’s been surprisingly challenging to find quantum algorithms that outperform classical ones. In this episode, Ewin Tang discusses her pioneering work in “dequantizing” quantum algor...
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Ewin Tang went to college at 14. As a senior, she upended a claim about quantum computers by proving that a classical algorithm could outperform its quantum counterpart. Catch my convo with Ewin on this week’s episode of “The Joy of Why,” from @quantamagazine
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Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound | Quanta Magazine
Three new species of superconductivity were spotted this year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to form a frictionless quantum soup.
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@Quantamagazine article on mixing changes in deep temperate lakes and some ecological impacts (e.g. deoxygenation), today. Why? Sudeep Chandra documented stratification increases (less mixing) in 84% of 189 lakes globally. Some lakes stopped mixing altogether.
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@Quantamagazine article on mixing changes in deep temperate lakes and some ecological impacts (e.g. deoxygenation), today. Why? Sudeep Chandra documented stratification increases (less mixing) in 84% of 189 lakes globally. Some lakes stopped mixing altogether.
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For April fools day in 2014 I wrote a paper called The Realineituhedron in reference to Amplituhedron. This was one of the figures. In October @QuantaMagazine did a piece connecting the Amplituhedron to origami 😂 theoryandpractice.org/2014/04/The-...
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For April fools day in 2014 I wrote a paper called The Realineituhedron in reference to Amplituhedron. This was one of the figures. In October @QuantaMagazine did a piece connecting the Amplituhedron to origami 😂 theoryandpractice.org/2014/04/The-...
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Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve? | Quanta Magazine
Columnist Philip Ball thinks the phenomenon of decoherence might finally bridge the quantum-classical divide.
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February 18, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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Building an accurate model of Earth’s climate requires a lot of data. Photography reveals the extreme efforts scientists have undertaken to measure gases, glaciers, clouds and more.
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At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine
After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.
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We are proud to share that UBC Math faculty member Joshua Zahl, alongside his colleague Hong Wang (NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences) has resolved the 3D Kakeya conjecture, a century-old mathematical question. Learn more in @QuantaMagazine!
The deceptively simple Kakeya conjecture has bedeviled mathematicians for 50 years. A new proof of the conjecture in 3D illuminates a whole crop of related problems. Joseph Howlett reports:
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‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture | Quanta Magazine
The deceptively simple Kakeya conjecture has bedeviled mathematicians for 50 years. A new proof of the conjecture in three dimensions illuminates a whole crop of related problems.
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March 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
We are proud to share that UBC Math faculty member Joshua Zahl, alongside his colleague Hong Wang (NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences) has resolved the 3D Kakeya conjecture, a century-old mathematical question. Learn more in @QuantaMagazine!
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The Hidden Heroines of Chaos
Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory. Their previously untold story illustrates the changing status of computation in science.
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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 of the objects’ closest surroundings.
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February 17, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better
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Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better
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Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better | Quanta Magazine
The discovery that the brain has different systems for representing small and large numbers provokes new questions about memory, attention and mathematics.
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Lifelike biochemistry continued to unfold in sterilized soil for six years, pointing to a metabolic theory for how biology began.
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New Quantum Algorithm Factors Numbers With One Qubit | Quanta Magazine
The catch: It would require the energy of a few medium-size stars.
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Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything? | Quanta Magazine
Columnist Natalie Wolchover examines the latest developments in the “forever war” over whether string theory can describe the world.
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What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know.
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What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know.
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What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know. | Quanta Magazine
Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world th...
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What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know.
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What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know.
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How Distillation Makes AI Models Smaller and Cheaper | Quanta Magazine
Fundamental technique lets researchers use a big, expensive “teacher” model to train a “student” model for less.
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