#quanta-magazine — Public Fediverse posts

Oh, look! 🦜 Birds have eyes! And guess what? They've evolved! 🤯 Who would've thought?! Quanta Magazine tackles the groundbreaking revelation that evolution happens, one bird eye at a time. 🦉🎉 Next up: water is wet. 💧🚀
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird-eye-was-pushed-to-an-evolutionary-extreme-20260513/ #BirdsEvolution #QuantaMagazine #NatureScience #EyeOpening #Discoveries #HackerNews #ngated

⚡️Oh goodie, another 5,000 words on how #lightning is caused by *gasp* electricity! 🌩️ Quanta Magazine stretches an already thin topic into a teachable moment that even your #science teacher wouldn't bother with. But hey, at least we learned there's a GIFTS STORE if you want to buy some #boredom. 🎁🙄
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-lightning-the-answer-keeps-getting-more-interesting-20260506/ #QuantaMagazine #GIFTSSTORE #education #HackerNews #ngated

🦕🔍 Quanta Magazine spends a millennium marveling at rocks and bones, thinking they've cracked the code of life itself. Meanwhile, anyone with a basic grasp of #history knows #fossils are just nature's way of saying "I was here first" in the most tedious way possible. 🧠✨
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-treasure-trove-of-cambrian-fossils-rewrites-the-story-of-early-life-20260501/ #QuantaMagazine #science #discovery #HackerNews #ngated

あらゆるものになる可能性を秘めた「無」──零点エネルギーの謎

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://wired.jp/article/in-quantum-mechanics-nothingness-is-the-potential-to-be-anything/

The ‘Lonely Runner’ Problem Only Appears Simple

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/the-lonely-runner-problem-only-appears-simple/

辺境の数学「無限集合」と「コンピューター科学」の新たな架け橋

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://wired.jp/article/a-new-bridge-links-the-strange-math-of-infinity-to-computer-science/

最適解を求めるアルゴリズムを最適化する方法が見つかる

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://wired.jp/article/researchers-discover-the-optimal-way-to-optimize/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ianRobinson/116354656507164778

This is fantastic. Quanta Magazine is a treasure.

#Science #Biology #QuantaMagazine

AIはついに人間だけがもつ「メタ言語」能力を獲得した

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://wired.jp/article/in-a-first-ai-models-analyze-language-as-well-as-a-human-expert/

Quanta Magazine 🤓 wonders if digital proofs are the end of rigorous math as we know it. Maybe next week they'll tackle whether #calculators are ruining the joys of long division. 📉🔢
https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-math-rigor-is-vital-but-are-digitized-proofs-taking-it-too-far-20260325/ #QuantaMagazine #digitalProofs #rigorousMath #longDivision #HackerNews #ngated

#QuantaMagazine Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything? Natalie Wolchover https://www.quantamagazine.org/are-strings-still-our-best-hope-for-a-theory-of-everything-20260323/ On papers with few citations #arXiv Strings from Almost Nothing https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09246 & #arXiv String Theory from Maximal Supersymmetry https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11705

AIモデルが物理法則を直観的に理解しはじめた

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://wired.jp/article/how-one-ai-model-creates-a-physical-intuition-of-its-environment/

アルゴリズムによる価格高騰の理由をゲーム理論で解明する

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://wired.jp/article/the-game-theory-of-how-algorithms-can-drive-up-prices/

🔮✨ The mysteries of quantum mechanics are "dissolving" just as quickly as my faith in pseudoscientific clickbait. Brace yourselves, folks, Quanta Magazine is at it again with more theoretical ponderings that solve precisely nothing. 🌀🔍
https://www.quantamagazine.org/are-the-mysteries-of-quantum-mechanics-beginning-to-dissolve-20260213/ #quantummechanics #pseudoscience #QuantaMagazine #theoreticalponderings #sciencehumor #HackerNews #ngated

A Man Who Stole Infinity

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-stole-infinity-20260225/

#HackerNews #A #Man #Who #Stole #Infinity #infinity #theft #mathematics #storytelling #quantamagazine

海の波に潜む数学を2世紀越しで解明

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://wired.jp/article/the-hidden-math-of-ocean-waves-crashes-into-view/

The Nothing That Has the Potential to Be Anything

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/the-nothing-that-has-the-potential-to-be-anything/

結び目の“複雑さ”は数学的に解きほどけるか？

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://wired.jp/article/a-simple-way-to-measure-knots-has-come-unraveled/

No One Is Quite Sure Why Ice Is Slippery

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/no-one-is-quite-sure-why-ice-is-slippery/

「知識蒸留」がAIモデルをさらに小さく安価にする

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://wired.jp/article/how-distillation-makes-ai-models-smaller-and-cheaper/

量子科学が切り拓く、暗号理論の新しい数学

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://wired.jp/article/the-new-math-of-quantum-cryptography/

ハイブリッド呼吸ができるバクテリア発見の衝撃

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://wired.jp/article/these-newly-discovered-cells-breathe-in-two-ways/

A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-bridge-links-the-strange-math-of-infinity-to-computer-science/

Here’s the Quanta Magazine review article about the year in Mathematics. There’s also a video on their YouTube Channel, and embedded in this article.

#QuantaMagazine #Maths #Math #ReviewOfTheYear
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-mathematics-20251218/

Here’s the Quanta Magazine review article about the year in Physics. There’s also a video on their YouTube Channel, and embedded in this article.

#QuantaMagazine #Physics #ReviewOfTheYear
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-physics-20251217/

Quanta Magazine picks for the top stories in bioscience this year. I assume there will be a video about the top 3 at some point. The Maths and Physics videos are already available.

#QuantaMagazine #Biology #Bioscience #ReviewOfTheYear https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-biology-20251215/

Quanta Magazine picks for the top stories in Computer Science this year. I assume there will be a video about the top 3 at some point. The Maths and Physics videos are already available.

#QuantaMagazine #CompSci #ComputerScience #ReviewOfTheYear https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-computer-science-20251216/

Listening to The Quanta Podcast (Audio Edition: The Core of Fermat’s Last Theorem Just Got Superpowered): https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_11709_3c29c512-c7bd-4db0-8e93-3703634ce159&uf=https%3A%2F%2Fquantapodcast.quantamagazine.org%2F

By extending the scope of the key insight behind Fermat’s Last Theorem, four mathematicians have made great strides toward building a “grand unified theory” of math.

#QuantaMagazine #Maths #Math #Podcast

Behold the Manifold, the Concept that Changed How Mathematicians View Space

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/behold-the-manifold-the-concept-that-changed-how-mathematicians-view-space/