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A Year In Physics: The Best of 2023 Physics
Quanta Magazine recounts the best and the brightest of 2023’s studies in the field of physics.
A Year In Math: The Best of 2023 Mathematics
Quanta Magazine recounts the best and the brightest of 2023’s studies in the field of mathematics.
P vs. NP
The “P vs. NP” problem revolves around the complexity of computational problems; whether P equals NP has far-reaching…
How AI Learns to “See” the World
In computer vision, experts explore teaching computers to see the world like humans do. Unlike traditional supervised learning…
How Do Scientists Study Our Body’s Internal Clock?
The circadian rhythm regulates our body’s daily processes on a roughly 24-hour cycle. While its specifics remain a…
Why Bother With Mathematicians When We Have AI?
AI’s slow but steady encroachment into everyday life has covered almost every niche it can touch—including math. What…
Wormholes Can Exist—Or At Least Quantum Computers Say So
Using intricate manipulation of quantum bits known as “qubits” stored in minuscule circuits, researchers successfully sent information through…
Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis
Imagine you have a line with all the positive whole numbers on it. Can mathematics reveal any patterns…
The Theory of (Almost) Everything (For Now)
Elementary particles and fundamental forces weave together the fabric of reality in what scientists call the Standard Model…
The Four-Color Theorem
The Four-Color Theorem is an intriguing mathematical puzzle rooted in graph theory and map coloring. This timeless problem…