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- 1 1. The Cosmologist Challenging Einstein2022-02-23 · 10mCelia Escamilla-Rivera discusses how she is using the tools of precision cosmology to hunt for a theory of gravity—in particular, teleparallel gravity—that incorporates dark energy
- 2 2. How Geometry Shapes Our Lives2022-03-07Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, enjoys studying the math underlying everyday phenomena. “Mathematics is part of the creative world,” Elle
- 3 3. The Biophysics of a Brainless Animal2022-03-17Trichoplax adhaerens is a species of placozoa, the simplest animals at the base of the tree of life. It doesn't have a nervous system, yet it exhibits complex behaviors. How is thi
- 4 4. Steven Strogatz’s Secrets of Math Communication2022-03-25Steven Strogatz — the acclaimed mathematician and author — hosts the new Quanta Magazine podcast "The Joy of Why." On March 18, 2022, he joined Quanta editor Thomas Lin for a Simon
- 5 5. The Physicist Who Travels Across Disciplines, Space and Time2022-04-20A playful polymath who is prone to leaping from string theory to Proust in mid-conversation, Vijay Balasubramanian of the University of Pennsylvania is a physicist, computer scient
- 6 6. The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math2022-05-17Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. The Turing Award-winning computer scientist pioneered the field of distributed systems, where multiple components on
- 7 7. Finally, a Picture of the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole2022-05-18More than three years after the release of the first-ever image of a black hole, scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) shared an image of Sagittarius A* (pronounced A-s
- 8 8. The Biggest Project in Modern Mathematics2022-06-01In a 1967 letter to the number theorist André Weil, a 30-year-old mathematician named Robert Langlands outlined striking conjectures that predicted a correspondence between two obj
- 9 9. Exploring the Deep Mystery of Life's Origins2022-08-08As an evolutionary biochemist at University College London, Nick Lane explores the deep mystery of how life evolved on Earth. His hypothesis that life arose through primitive metab
- 10 10. How Two Physicists Unlocked the Secrets of Two Dimensions2022-08-16Condensed matter physics is the most active field of contemporary physics and has yielded some of the biggest breakthroughs of the past century. But as rapidly as technology has ad
- 11 11. One Man's Mission to Unveil Math's Beauty2022-09-13"Students haven't been taught that math is discovery," says Richard Rusczyk, founder of Art of Problem Solving. "Math is a creative discipline—you're creating castles in the sky."
- 12 12. The High Schooler Who Solved a Prime Number Theorem2022-10-13In his senior year of high school, Daniel Larsen proved a key theorem about Carmichael numbers — strange entities that mimic the primes. “It would be a paper that any mathematician
- 13 13. How Physicists Created a Wormhole in a Quantum Computer2022-11-30 · 17mAlmost a century ago, Albert Einstein realized that the equations of general relativity could produce wormholes. But it would take a number of theoretical leaps and a “crazy” team
- 14 14. 2022's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math2022-12-23 · 12mMathematicians made major progress in 2022, solving a centuries-old geometry question called the interpolation problem, proving the best way to minimize the surface area of cluster
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