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…
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…