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Puzzles

How Many Exoplanets Can You Visit in Quanta’s New Math Game?

By Thomas Lin
March 3, 2023
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Explore a universe of numbers and arithmetic in our new interactive math game, Hyperjumps!

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2022 Fields and Abacus Medals

In Times of Scarcity, War and Peace, a Ukrainian Finds the Magic in Math

By Thomas Lin +1 authors
Erica Klarreich
July 5, 2022
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With her homeland mired in war, the sphere-packing number theorist Maryna Viazovska has become the second woman to win a Fields Medal in the award’s 86-year history.

2020 in Review

Our Favorite Comments of the Year

By Thomas Lin
December 23, 2020
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Online comment platforms can bring out the best — and the worst — in people. At the end of a tumultuous year, Quanta’s editors highlight some of our favorite things you had to say.

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In Theory

How Feynman Diagrams Revolutionized Physics

By Thomas Lin
May 14, 2019
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In the late 1940s, Richard Feynman invented a visual tool for simplifying particle calculations that forever changed theoretical physics.

Multimedia

Quanta Writers and Editors Discuss Trends in Science and Math

By Thomas Lin
November 21, 2018
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On November 16, 2018, more than 200 readers joined writers and editors from Quanta Magazine for a wide-ranging panel discussion that examined the newest ideas in fundamental physics, biology and mathematics research.

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In Theory

How Holography Could Help Solve Quantum Gravity

By Thomas Lin
November 14, 2018
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In the latest campaign to reconcile Einstein’s theory of gravity with quantum mechanics, many physicists are studying how a higher dimensional space that includes gravity arises like a hologram from a lower dimensional particle theory.

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In Theory

The Universal Pattern Popping Up in Math, Physics and Biology

By Thomas Lin
August 23, 2018
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Quanta’s In Theory video series returns with an exploration of a mysterious mathematical pattern found throughout nature.

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Thinking Places

Subhash Khot, Playing Unique Games in Washington Square Park

By Thomas Lin +2 authors
Olena Shmahalo
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
July 10, 2017
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The theoretical computer scientist behind the influential Unique Games Conjecture delights in the wonders of New York’s Washington Square Park, where he ponders the impossible.

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Thinking Places

Roberto Peccei and Helen Quinn, Driving Around Stanford in a Clunky Jeep

By Thomas Lin +2 authors
Olena Shmahalo
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
June 15, 2017
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The two physicists who introduced Peccei-Quinn symmetry came up with their idea on and around Stanford University’s campus 40 years ago.


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About the author

Thomas Lin is the founding editor of Quanta Magazine and the editor of Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire and The Prime Number Conspiracy. He joined the Simons Foundation in 2012 after more than seven years at The New York Times, where he managed the online science and national news sections and wrote about science, tennis and technology. His work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Tennis and Wired and has been recognized by the American Society of Magazine Editors, White House News Photographers Association, Webby Awards, New York Emmys and others. He has taught at CUNY’s journalism school, serves as a board member on the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and was once a mechanical engineer.
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