The Complex Social Lives of Viruses
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Ever since viruses came to light in the late 1800s, scientists...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Ever since viruses came to light in the late 1800s, scientists...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Our sun is the best-observed star in the entire universe.We see...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In October, a Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch from...
Beyond DESI, a slew of new instruments are coming online in the coming years, including the 8.4-meter Vera Rubin Observatory...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In Georgia’s 2020 gubernatorial election, some voters in Atlanta waited over...
“How are matter and energy distributed?” asked Peter Schweitzer, a theoretical physicist at the University of Connecticut. “We don’t know.”Schweitzer...
The third factor is the probability of a lifeless planet producing the observed signal—an equally serious challenge, researchers now realize,...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In recent decades, neuroscience has seen some stunning advances, and yet...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Two years ago, in a project called the Beyond the Imitation...
This extreme fragility might make quantum computing sound hopeless. But in 1995, the applied mathematician Peter Shor discovered a clever...