How Voting Is Like a Klein Bottle
A new topological model connects a centuries-old voting paradox to a surface with no distinct inside or outside.
quantamagazine.org
Can Whales Sing with Their Mouths Full?
Their songs provide a new way to monitor their feeding behavior
nautil.us
Listen to the Earliest Known Recordings of a Nearly Dead American Language
These “lost” recordings of the Creole language offer unique insights that written transcripts can’t provide
nautil.us
The Mystery of Why Some Drugs Vanish
Disappearing versions of pharmaceutical molecules mean scientists can lose the ability to create some drugs, but why?
nautil.us
How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole?
Astrophysicist Shep Doeleman explains how capturing the first image of a black hole required a telescope the size of the world, and why the next goal is to create a movie.
quantamagazine.org
stepped timber platforms and operable textiles shape circular düsseldorf home by urselmann interior
designboom.com
Mother Bats’ Hearts Quicken When They Hear Baby’s Cries
Like humans, bat moms are primed by evolution to spring into action
nautil.us
hélène fauquet overlays photographs with salvaged shells in ensemble of rococo-like curiosities
hélène fauquet explores photography, sculpture, and reflective bubbles in vivresse, her new exhibition at lafayette anticipations in paris.
designboom.com
The Pen Addict Podcast: Episode 739 - Accidental Stationery
penaddict.com
A New Fossil Hints at the Surprising Origins of Snakes
By the Cretaceous, they’d already tried on several different lifestyles and sensory styles
nautil.us
AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?
Unlike other recent AI proofs, this one has been unpacked by human experts. The implications, one mathematician said, are “staggering.”
quantamagazine.org
Workers Who Fear AI May be More Prone to Slacking Off
“Jobs apocalypse” or not, threats have consequences
nautil.us
How Does Life Unfold? A Landscape Metaphor Comes Into Its Own
C.H. Waddington’s powerful image of embryonic stem cells specializing on a rolling landscape has captivated biologists since the 1950s. Experimental data is finally confirming, and complicating, his visionary ideas.
quantamagazine.org
A Recipe to Stop AI from Going Rogue
A Recipe to Stop AI from Going Rogue: This formula aims to prevent LLMs from doing things that endanger humans.
nautil.us
Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings
Unexpected patterns traveling across the human brain may be reorganizing its activity in real time.
quantamagazine.org
“Floating Scarecrow” Demonstrates the Enduring Power of Eyes in the Natural World
No one likes being watched
nautil.us
What Does the Fourth Dimension Actually Look Like?
Maggie Miller explains why our intuition about three dimensions breaks down in four, and how she visualizes 4D spaces as a reel of three-dimensional snapshots.
quantamagazine.org
NASA Tests Dual Mode Propulsion CubeSat Ahead of Launch
ASCENT Propulsion, a 6-U CubeSat, recently underwent rigorous spin, thermal vacuum, and leak tests to ensure it is ready for the extreme environment of space.
nasa.gov
Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality?
The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space. Physicists don’t yet understand the implications.
quantamagazine.org
Gentle Exercise May be More Effective Than Medications at Managing Chronic Pain
Side effects may include an improved mood
nautil.us
Where Does the Quantum World End and Ours Begin?
Jonathan Halliwell explains how quantum decoherence is key to understanding how we transition from a world with a wave-like nature of matter and energy to the classical macroscopic world that we’re used to.
quantamagazine.org
The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof
By revisiting the famous problem — which was controversially solved in the 1970s with the help of computers — mathematicians have gained important new insights into the nature of graphs.
quantamagazine.org
Why Do These Fossil Shells Flip Their Spirals Every Few Millennia?
The mystery of the flipping foraminifera may conceal a rarely observed evolutionary process playing out across the planet.
quantamagazine.org
What Is Math’s Mysterious Langlands Program Really About?
Hidden correspondences hint at a deeper structure to the mathematical universe. Our columnist unpacks one of those connections and asks mathematicians what they might mean.
quantamagazine.org
The Moon May Have Been Created in Just Five Hours
Researchers played out the impact between Earth and the hypothetical ancient planet Theia
nautil.us
A Danish painter’s studio is up for sale on the Tisvilde coast
The 1961 property is registered as a holiday home
thespaces.com
‘Stunning’ Percolation Proof Solves Decades-Old Puzzle About Phase Transitions
Mathematicians found that a broad class of networks will abruptly shift behavior past a critical point.
quantamagazine.org
Envy at the Ballot Box
The bedrock of democracy is collective decision-making and majority rule—but does voting always lead to the best outcomes?
nautil.us
Schizophrenia’s Cruel Roulette Wheel
Schizophrenia's Cruel Roulette Wheel: Genetics and stress can combine in ways we don’t yet fully understand
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Building a Quantum Computer, One Fragile Qubit at a Time
No one yet knows which technology will power the quantum computers of the future, but the race to create them has already produced some of science’s most intricate machinery.
quantamagazine.org
Babies Born Under Sugar Rationing Grew Into Adults with Lower Cancer Risk
Babies Born Under Sugar Rationing Grew Into Adults with Lower Cancer Risk: Britain’s postwar sugar rationing was an accidental experiment.
nautil.us
How the Ancient Greeks Interpreted Their Dreams
How the Ancient Greeks Interpreted Their Dreams: Certain concepts such as metaphor may derive from early dream interpretation
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