Quanta MagazineScience How the Neutrino’s Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big MysteriesQuanta Magazine - Marcus Woo The KATRIN experiment is closing in on the mass of the neutrino, which could point to new laws of particle physics and shape theories of cosmology. Of …
Quanta MagazineComputer Science Nobel Awarded for Lithium-Ion Batteries and Portable PowerQuanta Magazine - Jordana Cepelewicz John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing lithium-ion batteries, "the hidden …
Quanta MagazineUniverse Physics Nobel Honors Early Universe and Exoplanet DiscoveriesQuanta Magazine - Michael Moyer The astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won half of the prize for their 1995 discovery of a Jupiter-like planet orbiting a nearby star. The …
Quanta MagazineOxygen Nobel Prize Awarded for Cells’ Adaptations to OxygenQuanta Magazine - John Rennie The 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine honored work on understanding how cells adjust to low oxygen levels. William G. Kaelin, Jr. of the …
Quanta MagazineThe Brain Your Brain Chooses What to Let You SeeQuanta Magazine - Jordana Cepelewicz Beneath our awareness, the brain lets certain kinds of stimuli automatically capture our attention by lowering the priority of the rest. Last week, …
Quanta MagazineComputer Science Computers and Humans ‘See’ Differently. Does It Matter?Quanta Magazine - Kevin Hartnett In some ways, machine vision is superior to human vision. In other ways, it may never catch up. When engineers first endeavored to teach computers to …
Quanta MagazineScience Origin-of-Life Study Points to Chemical Chimeras, Not RNAQuanta Magazine - Jordana Cepelewicz Origin-of-life researchers have usually studied the potential of pure starting materials, but messy chemical composites may kick-start life more …
Quanta MagazineProtons Physicists Finally Nail the Proton’s Size, and Hope DiesQuanta Magazine - Natalie Wolchover A new measurement appears to have eliminated an anomaly that had captivated physicists for nearly a decade. In 2010, physicists in Germany reported …
Quanta MagazineScience Strange Metal-like Bonds Discovered in Customized CrystalsQuanta Magazine - Erika K. Carlson While studying materials made from DNA-coated nanoparticles, researchers found a new form of this matter: lattices in which smaller particles roam …
Quanta Magazine Possible Detection of a Black Hole So Big It ‘Should Not Exist’Quanta Magazine - Natalie Wolchover At stake are fundamental ideas about how black holes form — and a six-way bet. Black hole physicists have been excitedly discussing reports that the …
Quanta MagazineCancer Can New Species Evolve From Cancers? Maybe. Here’s How.Quanta Magazine - Christie Wilcox Researchers agree it’s a long shot, but transmissible cancers could theoretically evolve into independent species. Certain weird parasites might be …
Quanta Magazine To Make Two Black Holes Collide, Try ThreeQuanta Magazine - Erika K. Carlson How do black holes merge and make gravitational waves? Maybe with a little help from their friends. The spiraling dance of a pair of colliding black …
Quanta Magazine In Brain’s Electrical Ripples, Markers for Memories AppearQuanta Magazine - Jordana Cepelewicz Researchers found that elongating certain brain signals in rats improved their memory. The work revealed a new property to look out for in the hunt …
Quanta Magazine Physicists Peer Inside a Fireball of Quantum MatterQuanta Magazine - Charlie Wood Experimenters in Germany have glimpsed the kind of strange, non-atomic matter thought to fill the cores of merging neutron stars. A gold wedding band …
Quanta Magazine Sun’s Puzzling Plasma Recreated in a LaboratoryQuanta Magazine - Erika K. Carlson The twisting loops of the sun’s magnetic field control the flow of charged particles throughout the solar system. For the first time, researchers …
Quanta Magazine Sun’s Puzzling Plasma Recreated in a LaboratoryQuanta Magazine - Erika K. Carlson The twisting loops of the sun’s magnetic field control the flow of charged particles throughout the solar system. For the first time, researchers …
Quanta Magazine Big Black Holes Found in the Smallest GalaxiesQuanta Magazine - Ramin Skibba Tiny, dim “dwarf” galaxies have been found to hide gas-spewing black holes. Even little galaxies have enormous black holes. That’s the takeaway from a …
Quanta MagazineScience Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First TestsQuanta Magazine - Philip Ball Three experiments have vetted quantum Darwinism, a theory that explains how quantum possibilities can give rise to objective, classical reality. It’s …
Quanta MagazineQubits Quantum Supremacy Is Coming: Here’s What You Should KnowQuanta Magazine - Kevin Hartnett Researchers are getting close to building a quantum computer that can perform tasks a classical computer can’t. Here’s what the milestone will …
Quanta Magazine How (Relatively) Simple Symmetries Underlie Our Expanding UniverseQuanta Magazine - Natalie Wolchover Although Einstein’s theory of space-time seems more complicated than Newtonian physics, it greatly simplified the mathematical description of the …
Quanta Magazine How Swarming Insects Act Like FluidsQuanta Magazine - Jordana Cepelewicz By studying a swarm of flying midges as though it were a fluid, physicists have learned how collective behaviors might stabilize a group against …
Quanta Magazine How Randomness Can Make Math EasierQuanta Magazine - Kevin Hartnett Randomness would seem to make a mathematical statement harder to prove. In fact, it often does the opposite. Of all the tools available to the …
Quanta MagazineQuantum Mechanics The Quantum Theory That Peels Away the Mystery of MeasurementQuanta Magazine - Philip Ball A recent test has confirmed the predictions of quantum trajectory theory, which describes what happens during the long-mysterious “collapse” of a …
Quanta Magazine Philosophers Debate New ‘Sonic Black Hole’ DiscoveryQuanta Magazine - Natalie Wolchover Opinions differ about what recent measurements of a sound-trapping fluid reveal about light-trapping black holes. In the decades since Hawking …
Quanta Magazine A New Law to Describe Quantum Computing’s Rise?Quanta Magazine - Kevin Hartnett Neven’s law states that quantum computers are improving at a “doubly exponential” rate. If it holds, quantum supremacy is around the corner. In …
Quanta Magazine A Close Look at Newborn Planets Reveals Hints of Infant MoonsQuanta Magazine - Joshua Sokol Astronomers have discovered a complex planetary system still swirling into existence.
Quanta MagazineThe Brain Do Brains Operate at a Tipping Point? New Clues and ComplicationsQuanta Magazine - Charlie Wood New experimental results simultaneously advance and challenge the theory that the brain’s network of neurons balances on the knife-edge between two …
Quanta MagazineScience Immune Cells Measure Time to Identify Foreign ProteinsQuanta Magazine - Jordana Cepelewicz Immunologists confirm an old hunch: T-cells identify what belongs in the body by timing how long they can bind to it. To mount a successful defense …
Quanta MagazineScience What’s the Magic Behind Graphene’s ‘Magic’ Angle?Quanta Magazine - David H. Freedman A new theoretical model may help explain the shocking onset of superconductivity in stacked, twisted carbon sheets. The blockbuster discovery last …
