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Thinking Places

Yitang Zhang’s Santa Barbara Beach Walk

By Thomas Lin +2 authors
Olena Shmahalo
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
June 15, 2017
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An obscure number theorist who became an overnight sensation with a major proof about the gaps between prime numbers now finds quiet inspiration walking along the Pacific Coast.

Journey to the Birth of the Solar System
In Theory

Journey to the Birth of the Solar System

By Natalie Wolchover +1 authors
Thomas Lin
May 25, 2017

Join David Kaplan on a virtual-reality tour showing how the sun, the Earth and the other planets came to be.

Editor's Note

The New Familiar Quanta

By Thomas Lin
May 2, 2017
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Quanta unveils a completely re-engineered and redesigned site to better serve our readers and the journalism we produce.

Pencils Down: Experiments in Education

Do You Love or Hate Math and Science?

By Thomas Lin
October 20, 2016
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Quanta Magazine invites readers to share about their early math and science learning experiences and to explore the interactive survey results.

Pencils Down: Experiments in Education

A Wormhole Between Physics and Education

By Thomas Lin
October 18, 2016
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The theoretical particle physicist Helen Quinn has blazed a singular path from the early days of the Standard Model to the latest overhaul of science education in the United States.

Abstractions blog

Science Evolves. Will Science Education?

By Thomas Lin
October 12, 2016
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Science is a constantly changing, self-correcting process. Why do we teach it as a collection of old, settled facts?

Pencils Down: Experiments in Education

The Art of Teaching Math and Science

By Thomas Lin +3 authors
Siobhan Roberts
Natalie Wolchover
Emily Singer
October 11, 2016
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The impasse in math and science instruction runs deeper than test scores or the latest educational theory. What can we learn from the best teachers on the front lines?

Multimedia

The Nine Schoolgirls Challenge

By Thomas Lin
June 9, 2015
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Solve this variation of Thomas Kirkman’s famous 1850 puzzle by arranging girls in walking groups. And think fast — the clock is ticking.

The Quantum Fabric of Space-Time

Interactive: What Is Space?

By Thomas Lin
April 30, 2015
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Imagine the fabric of space-time peeled back layer by layer.


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