#quantamagazine — Public Fediverse posts
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🎉 Quanta Magazine is back with yet another thrilling saga of indestructible dirt! Who knew soil had such a gripping life story? 🥱 Prepare for edge-of-your-seat excitement as we dig deep into... *the same old dirt*. 🌱📚
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-dirt-that-refused-to-die-20260601/ #QuantaMagazine #IndestructibleDirt #SoilStories #ExcitingReads #ScienceNews #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Quanta Magazine is back with yet another thrilling saga of indestructible dirt! Who knew soil had such a gripping life story? 🥱 Prepare for edge-of-your-seat excitement as we dig deep into... *the same old dirt*. 🌱📚
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-dirt-that-refused-to-die-20260601/ #QuantaMagazine #IndestructibleDirt #SoilStories #ExcitingReads #ScienceNews #HackerNews #ngated -
I just finished reading an interesting article in #QuantaMagazine about recent research on bird eyes. Unlike our inferior mammal eyes, bird eyes lack the network of blood vessels covering the retina. When an optometrist shines a bright light in our eyes, we see a network of blood vessels that block parts of our vision. Sleight of hand from our brain removes this from our perception, but it permanently limits what we see.
Birds retinas don’t do this at all, and it turns out that this is made possible by using a form of glucose-driven metabolism that doesn’t require oxygen. That’s crazy for such an energy intensive tissue. No other species alive today do this, and it likely evolved in dinosaurs.
It’s wild stuff.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird-eye-was-pushed-to-an-evolutionary-extreme-20260513/
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I just finished reading an interesting article in #QuantaMagazine about recent research on bird eyes. Unlike our inferior mammal eyes, bird eyes lack the network of blood vessels covering the retina. When an optometrist shines a bright light in our eyes, we see a network of blood vessels that block parts of our vision. Sleight of hand from our brain removes this from our perception, but it permanently limits what we see.
Birds retinas don’t do this at all, and it turns out that this is made possible by using a form of glucose-driven metabolism that doesn’t require oxygen. That’s crazy for such an energy intensive tissue. No other species alive today do this, and it likely evolved in dinosaurs.
It’s wild stuff.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird-eye-was-pushed-to-an-evolutionary-extreme-20260513/
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🎩✨ Behold, the great Grothendieck! The man who single-handedly turned #math into an avant-garde art form only the elite understand. Meanwhile, the rest of us mere mortals pretend to grasp the #genius while scrolling past endless Quanta Magazine newsletters. 📬🔮
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-alexander-grothendieck-revolutionized-20th-century-mathematics-20260520/ #Grothendieck #AvantGarde #QuantaMagazine #ArtInMath #EliteMindset #HackerNews #ngated -
🎩✨ Behold, the great Grothendieck! The man who single-handedly turned #math into an avant-garde art form only the elite understand. Meanwhile, the rest of us mere mortals pretend to grasp the #genius while scrolling past endless Quanta Magazine newsletters. 📬🔮
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-alexander-grothendieck-revolutionized-20th-century-mathematics-20260520/ #Grothendieck #AvantGarde #QuantaMagazine #ArtInMath #EliteMindset #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Breaking News: a deep dive into Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems reveals... wait for it... they're still incomprehensible! 📚🔍 This Quanta Magazine piece spends more time listing its own URL than actually explaining anything. 📥🙄
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-do-godels-incompleteness-theorems-truly-mean-20260518/ #GödelIncompleteness #QuantaMagazine #DeepDive #MathNews #Incomprehensible #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Breaking News: a deep dive into Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems reveals... wait for it... they're still incomprehensible! 📚🔍 This Quanta Magazine piece spends more time listing its own URL than actually explaining anything. 📥🙄
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-do-godels-incompleteness-theorems-truly-mean-20260518/ #GödelIncompleteness #QuantaMagazine #DeepDive #MathNews #Incomprehensible #HackerNews #ngated -
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, 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 -
⚡️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 -
🦕🔍 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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The ‘Lonely Runner’ Problem Only Appears Simple
https://fed.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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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 -
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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#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 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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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://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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A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science
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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 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/
