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Emily Buder

Former Director of Video

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Interviews

A Polymath on Physics, Computer Science, Neuroscience and Literature

By Emily Buder
April 20, 2022

Vijay Balasubramanian discusses the connections he sees between physics, computer science, neuroscience and literature and the humanities.

Conversations

Steven Strogatz’s Secrets of Math Communication

By Emily Buder
March 25, 2022

The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz joins Quanta editor Thomas Lin for a conversation about teaching, writing and podcasting.

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Discoveries

The Mechanical Secret of a Brainless Animal

By Emily Buder
March 17, 2022

Trichoplax adhaerens is a species of placozoa, the simplest animals at the base of the tree of life. It doesn’t have a nervous system, yet it exhibits complex behaviors. How is this possible? The answer could shed light on the origins of the nervous system—and the future of robotics. “It’s a tour de force of biophysics,” said Orit Peleg of the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Interviews

How Geometry Shapes Our Lives

By Emily Buder
March 7, 2022

Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, enjoys studying the math underlying everyday phenomena. “Mathematics is part of the creative world,” Ellenberg says. “We create things all the time.”

Interviews

The Cosmologist Challenging Einstein

By Emily Buder
February 23, 2022

Celia Escamilla-Rivera is combining large data sets with supercomputers to test general relativity against its little-known competitors.

Year in Review

2021’s Biggest Breakthroughs in Math and Computer Science

By Emily Buder
December 23, 2021

Mathematicians and computer scientists answered major questions in topology, set theory and even physics, even as computers continued to grow more capable.

Year in Review

2021’s Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics

By Emily Buder
December 22, 2021

Puzzling particles, quirky (and controversial) quantum computers, and one of the most ambitious science experiments in history marked the year’s milestones.

Year in Review

2021’s Biggest Breakthroughs in Biology

By Emily Buder
December 21, 2021

The detailed understanding of brains and multicellular bodies reached new heights this year, while the genomes of the COVID-19 virus and various organisms yielded more surprises.

Explainers

How NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Transform Our Place in the Universe

By Emily Buder
December 3, 2021

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