The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of ...
Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple ...
When checking that solutions to certain problems are correct, it turns out, you can’t get around the inherent complexity of ...
Today’s computers need safeguards against random energy fluctuations. Thermodynamic computers would put those fluctuations to ...
Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple ...
W hen I was first learning to write, my letters and words ran from right to left, reversed as if in a mirror. Being ...
One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famous questions in computer science. The Quanta Newsletter ...
Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs aren’t ordinary numbers.
Two research groups say they have significantly reduced the amount of qubits and time required to crack common online security technologies. The Quanta Newsletter ...
The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of what it means to be alive. But does it serve a scientific purpose? Where ...
From brain folds to insect architecture, L. Mahadevan explains how complex biological forms and behaviors emerge through the interplay of physical forces, environment and embodiment. The Quanta ...
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