Skip to content The New Math of Quantum Cryptography
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers ...
Read more These Newly Discovered Cells Breathe in Two Ways
The team members went through a process of incrementally determining what elements and molecules the bacterial strain could grow on. ...
Read more The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. We were once promised self-driving cars and robot maids. Instead, ...
Read more AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work
“LIGO is this huge thing that thousands of people have been thinking about deeply for 40 years,” said Aephraim Steinberg, ...
Read more Efforts to Ground Physics in Math Are Opening the Secrets of Time
Now, three mathematicians have finally provided such a result. Their work not only represents a major advance in Hilbert’s program, ...
Read more A ‘Grand Unified Theory’ of Math Just Got a Little Bit Closer
“We mostly believe that all the conjectures are true, but it’s so exciting to see it actually realized,” said Ana ...
Read more For Algorithms, Memory Is a Far More Powerful Resource Than Time
That classic result was a way to transform any algorithm with a given time budget into a new algorithm with ...
Read more How the Binding of Two Brain Molecules Creates Memories That Last a Lifetime
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Todd Sacktor was about to turn 3, his 4-year-old ...
Read more The Mysterious Inner Workings of Io, Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon
Crucially, unlike Io’s odd magnetic field, which seemed to indicate that it concealed an ocean’s worth of fluid, Europa’s own ...
Read more A New Law of Nature Attempts to Explain the Complexity of the Universe
Kauffman argues that biological evolution is thus constantly creating not just new types of organisms but new possibilities for organisms, ...
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