Quanta Magazine

Three high school students — Niko Voth (bottom right), Joshua Broden (bottom left) and Noah Nazareth (top left) — recently proved a new theorem about knots and fractals with the help of their mentor Malors Espinosa, a mathematician at the University of Toronto. https://lnkd.in/eBapgdyR

No device is an island: Your daily computational needs depend on more than just the microprocessors inside your computer or phone. Our modern world relies on “distributed computing,” which shares the computational load among multiple different machines. The technique passes data back and forth in an elaborate choreography of digital bits — a dance that has shaped the internet’s past, present and likely future. https://lnkd.in/edaW8avs

Physicists have no clue what’s causing the gallium anomaly, which leaves them in an uncomfortable spot. Are they just missing some error? Or, could it point to a new type of neutrino — one that might also help to explain dark matter? Listen to “Quanta Science Podcast”: https://lnkd.in/e9MKBt2K Or read the transcript: https://lnkd.in/esTY-9Vg

People who don’t understand math often want to run away from it. David Bessis thinks we should run toward it. https://lnkd.in/eQNzuiVT

Quantum physicists Luca Apadula (left), Anne-Catherine de la Hamette and Viktoria Kabel co-led a study showing that the choice of reference frame affects which systems seem to be entangled or in superpositions. https://lnkd.in/gCMmm3i7

Across the animal kingdom, vocal-learning species spend more time being coddled by their parents. A baby chick can walk right away, but a songbird? They take more time in the nest, rehearsing a repertoire of vocalizations. Tune in to “The Joy of Why” with co-host Janna Levin: https://lnkd.in/grjwZDZF Or read the transcript: https://lnkd.in/gFS8yhYJ

Ever since Xerox invented the ethernet cable back in the 70s, computers have benefitted from distributing the load of information and processing across multiple machines.? https://lnkd.in/edaW8avs

What if reality is infinitely vaster than it seems???? In this week's Fundamentals newsletter, physics staff writer Charlie Wood explores one of the most controversial ideas in modern physics — the multiverse.

“[LUCA] tells our own story… It gives us a point from which we can look even further back.” — Edmund Moody, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Bristol. https://lnkd.in/eeDeXdiu

Read this post aloud. You might notice some delicate physical choreography: diaphragm, larynx, lips, jaw, tongue. These movements use the same motor pathways to form a sentence as your feet would to do a pirouette. Learn more about the neural circuitry that makes speech possible on this week’s episode of “The Joy of Why” with co-host Janna Levin: https://lnkd.in/grjwZDZF Or read the transcript: https://lnkd.in/gFS8yhYJ