#quantamagazine — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #quantamagazine, aggregated by home.social.
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⚡️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 -
The ‘Lonely Runner’ Problem Only Appears Simple
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/the-lonely-runner-problem-only-appears-simple/
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ianRobinson/116354656507164778
This is fantastic. Quanta Magazine is a treasure.
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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
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🔮✨ 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 -
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/
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No One Is Quite Sure Why Ice Is Slippery
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/no-one-is-quite-sure-why-ice-is-slippery/
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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/
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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/
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No One Is Quite Sure Why Ice Is Slippery
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/no-one-is-quite-sure-why-ice-is-slippery/
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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/
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A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science
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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
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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/
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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/
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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.
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Behold the Manifold, the Concept that Changed How Mathematicians View Space
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👨🔬🔬 Quanta Magazine unveils the shocking secret: dad bods might be the ultimate genetic hand-me-down! 🏋️♂️ Because clearly, all life's mysteries can be solved by scaring dads into jogging. 😂
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-dads-fitness-may-be-packaged-and-passed-down-in-sperm-rna-20251222/ #dadbods #geneticresearch #fitnesshumor #QuantaMagazine #healthmysteries #HackerNews #ngated -
Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard
https://www.quantamagazine.org/reverse-mathematics-illuminates-why-hard-problems-are-hard-20251201/
#HackerNews #ReverseMath #HardProblems #MathTheory #ProblemSolving #Quantamagazine
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Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard
https://www.quantamagazine.org/reverse-mathematics-illuminates-why-hard-problems-are-hard-20251201/
#HackerNews #ReverseMath #HardProblems #MathTheory #ProblemSolving #Quantamagazine
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Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard
https://www.quantamagazine.org/reverse-mathematics-illuminates-why-hard-problems-are-hard-20251201/
#HackerNews #ReverseMath #HardProblems #MathTheory #ProblemSolving #Quantamagazine
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Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard
https://www.quantamagazine.org/reverse-mathematics-illuminates-why-hard-problems-are-hard-20251201/
#HackerNews #ReverseMath #HardProblems #MathTheory #ProblemSolving #Quantamagazine
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Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard
https://www.quantamagazine.org/reverse-mathematics-illuminates-why-hard-problems-are-hard-20251201/
#HackerNews #ReverseMath #HardProblems #MathTheory #ProblemSolving #Quantamagazine
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The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/the-hidden-math-of-ocean-waves-crashes-into-view/
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The ‘10 Martini’ Proof Connects Quantum Mechanics With Infinitely Intricate Mathematical Structures
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The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves Crashes Into View
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-math-of-ocean-waves-crashes-into-view-20251015/
#HackerNews #HiddenMath #OceanWaves #ScienceExploration #QuantaMagazine #Mathematics
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The Mystery of How Quasicrystals Form
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/quasicrystals-spill-secrets-of-their-formation/
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How Isaac Newton Discovered the Binomial Power Series (2022)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-isaac-newton-discovered-the-binomial-power-series-20220831/
#HackerNews #IsaacNewton #BinomialPowerSeries #HistoryOfMathematics #ScienceDiscovery #QuantaMagazine
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🐻🔍 So apparently, "Busy Beaver hunters" are busy playing with numbers so big, they make ordinary math cry for its mommy. 📏💔 Meanwhile, Quanta Magazine is busy patting itself on the back for publishing yet another deep dive that only the Simons Foundation and a dozen math nerds will pretend to understand. 🙄🧠
https://www.quantamagazine.org/busy-beaver-hunters-reach-numbers-that-overwhelm-ordinary-math-20250822/ #BusyBeaver #MathNerds #QuantaMagazine #SimonsFoundation #DeepDive #HackerNews #ngated -
🔺🤹♂️ Behold, the cutting-edge revelation: a shape that lands the same side up! Next up, Quanta Magazine proves water is wet. 🌊💡 Enjoy this "news" while you shop for nonexistent gifts in their store. 🎁🔍
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-pyramid-like-shape-always-lands-the-same-side-up-20250625/ #cuttingedgeinnovation #shapeup #wateriswet #QuantaMagazine #technews #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
🔺🤹♂️ Behold, the cutting-edge revelation: a shape that lands the same side up! Next up, Quanta Magazine proves water is wet. 🌊💡 Enjoy this "news" while you shop for nonexistent gifts in their store. 🎁🔍
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-pyramid-like-shape-always-lands-the-same-side-up-20250625/ #cuttingedgeinnovation #shapeup #wateriswet #QuantaMagazine #technews #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
🔺🤹♂️ Behold, the cutting-edge revelation: a shape that lands the same side up! Next up, Quanta Magazine proves water is wet. 🌊💡 Enjoy this "news" while you shop for nonexistent gifts in their store. 🎁🔍
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-pyramid-like-shape-always-lands-the-same-side-up-20250625/ #cuttingedgeinnovation #shapeup #wateriswet #QuantaMagazine #technews #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
🔺🤹♂️ Behold, the cutting-edge revelation: a shape that lands the same side up! Next up, Quanta Magazine proves water is wet. 🌊💡 Enjoy this "news" while you shop for nonexistent gifts in their store. 🎁🔍
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-pyramid-like-shape-always-lands-the-same-side-up-20250625/ #cuttingedgeinnovation #shapeup #wateriswet #QuantaMagazine #technews #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
🔺🤹♂️ Behold, the cutting-edge revelation: a shape that lands the same side up! Next up, Quanta Magazine proves water is wet. 🌊💡 Enjoy this "news" while you shop for nonexistent gifts in their store. 🎁🔍
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-pyramid-like-shape-always-lands-the-same-side-up-20250625/ #cuttingedgeinnovation #shapeup #wateriswet #QuantaMagazine #technews #humor #HackerNews #ngated