Behold the Manifold, the Concept that Changed How Mathematicians View Space
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Standing in the middle of a field, we…
Research Reveals the Optimal Way to Optimize
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics…
That Plate You Just Dropped Followed a Weirdly Predictable Rule You’ve Never Heard Of
One innate (perhaps underappreciated) function of physics is to explain and generalize how stuff works in the real…
Google’s DeepMind Cracks a Century-Old Physics Mystery With AI
For over a century, mathematicians and physicists have wrestled with the chaotic nature of fluid movement — how…
The ‘10 Martini’ Proof Connects Quantum Mechanics With Infinitely Intricate Mathematical Structures
But in some ways, the proof was a bit unsatisfying. Jitomirskaya and Avila had used a method that…
1 Ranked Institute, IIT Madras & Danish University Study reveals Genetic ‘Switches’ that can transform Disease Research
CHENNAI, India, Oct. 8, 2025 /CNW/ — India’s No:1 Ranked Institute, the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and…
QuEra and Collaborators Unveil Breakthrough in Algorithmic Fault Tolerance for Quantum Computing, Cutting Runtime Overheads and Accelerating the Path to Real-World Applications
New Nature paper introduces transversal fault tolerance framework, slashing overhead for error-corrected quantum algorithms and accelerating the path…
The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program
But just how much harder? In 1962, the mathematician Tibor Radó invented a new way to explore this…