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Explore mind-bending developments in basic science and math research. Quanta Magazine is an award-winning, editorially independent magazine published by the Simons Foundation.
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- 1 1. Been Kim: A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think2019-01-10Google Brain’s Been Kim is building ways to let us interrogate the decisions made by machine learning systems.
- 2 2. Carolina Araujo on Supporting Women in Mathematics2019-01-22Carolina Araujo describes the effort to build a network of women mathematicians in Brazil.
- 3 3. What Is Turbulence?2020-01-28Physicists use the Navier-Stokes equations to describe fluid flows, taking into account viscosity, velocity, pressure and density. But because of turbulence in fluids, proving that
- 4 4. Priyamvada Natarajan: How Black Holes Shape Galaxies2019-02-04Priyamvada Natarajan explains the role of supermassive black holes in the structure and evolution of the universe.
- 5 5. Meenakshi Wadhwa on Meteorites and the Solar System2019-02-11Meenakshi Wadhwa explains how meteorites illuminate the origins of Earth and the rest of the solar system.
- 6 6. CRISPR Pioneer Jennifer Doudna on Its Research Promise2019-02-27Jennifer Doudna, one of the coinventors of CRISPR technology, discusses how her work on bacterial defenses against viruses helped lead to a discovery with a revolutionary impact on
- 7 7. Ecologist Jennifer Dunne on Humans’ Place in Food Webs2019-03-21Jennifer Dunne of the Santa Fe Institute explains how reconstructions of food webs in past ecosystems help ecologists understand both the unusual niche of humans and new clues to a
- 8 8. Jim Gunn on Building Astronomical Instruments2019-04-23The lauded astronomer Jim Gunn explains how a new spectrograph he is building will advance astronomy.
- 9 9. What Is Universality?2019-05-13Quanta’s In Theory video series returns with an exploration of the mysterious mathematical pattern found throughout nature.
- 10 10. What Are Feynman Diagrams?2019-05-14The brilliant physicist Richard Feynman devised a system of line drawings that simplified calculations of particle interactions and helped rescue the field of quantum electrodynami
- 11 11. Edward O. Wilson on the Evolution of Social Behaviors2019-05-15Edward O. Wilson, professor emeritus at Harvard University, is the influential naturalist and evolutionary theorist who introduced the concept of “sociobiology,” as well as one of
- 12 12. Amie Wilkinson on the Mathematics of Change2019-06-13The mathematician Amie Wilkinson explains how dynamics lets mathematicians explore the fundamentals of change.
- 13 13. Lee Smolin on the Impossibility of Studying the Universe2019-06-27Lee Smolin explores the problem of understanding the universe from the perspective of being inside the universe, as well as the need for physicists to know philosophy.
- 14 14. Greg Johnson on A.I. That Sees Inside Cells2019-07-24Greg Johnson, a computer vision researcher at the Allen Institute for Cell Science, explains how his deep learning vision systems can advance the state of cell biology
- 15 15. Carlo Rubbia on the Future of Particle Physics2019-08-07Carlo Rubbia explains why he thinks particle physicists should take the next step by building a “Higgs factory.”
- 16 16. Iyad Rahwan: Why We Need a Science of Machine Behavior2019-08-27The behavior of algorithms is so complex and surprising that we need to study them as though they were animals in the wild.
- 17 17. Craig Callender on the Trouble With Black Hole Thermodynamics2019-09-05Craig Callender explains why the connection between black holes and thermodynamics is little more than an analogy.
- 18 18. Stephanie Wehner Aims to Build a Quantum Internet2019-09-25Wehner discusses the advantages of transmitting qubits rather than bits across a long-distance communication network.
- 19 19. Virginia Trimble on How Astronomy Has Changed2019-11-11Virginia Trimble discusses how astronomy has changed over the course of her half-century career.
- 20 20. Barbara Liskov on the Future of Computer Science2019-11-20Barbara Liskov addresses the challenges that confront computer science.
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