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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.

Ewine van Dishoeck at Noordwijk beach in the Netherlands.
Thinking Places

Ewine van Dishoeck, the Netherlander Who Traced Water’s Origin

By Natalie Wolchover +1 authors
Olena Shmahalo
November 1, 2018
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The astrochemist and winner of the 2018 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics has wondered about the cosmic origin of water while enjoying Noordwijk beach near her hometown of Leiden.

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DNA Analysis Reveals a Genus of Plants Hiding in Plain Sight

By Olena Shmahalo
September 4, 2018
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Gene-sequence data is changing the way that botanists think about their classification schemes. A recent name-change for a common houseplant resulted from the discovery that it belonged in an overlooked genus.

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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.

Victoria Meadows in her garden with her cockatoo.
Thinking Places

Victoria Meadows’ Earthly Visions of Alien Life

By Natalie Wolchover +1 authors
Olena Shmahalo
June 5, 2018
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A living, breathing garden in Seattle serves as the perfect backdrop to an astrobiologist’s search for life on faraway planets.

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Plunge Into a (Virtual Reality) Black Hole

By Natalie Wolchover
December 4, 2017
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Join a fleet of robotic probes on a one-way virtual-reality trip into the abyss of a massive black hole.

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Seeing the Beautiful Intelligence of Microbes

By John Rennie +1 authors
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
November 13, 2017
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Bacterial biofilms and slime molds are more than crude patches of goo. Detailed time-lapse microscopy reveals how they sense and explore their surroundings, communicate with their neighbors and adaptively reshape themselves.

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From the Edge of the Universe to the Inside of a Proton

By Natalie Wolchover +1 authors
Olena Shmahalo
November 6, 2017
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The Zoomable Universe, a new book by the astrobiologist Caleb Scharf, the illustrator Ron Miller and 5W Infographics, tours the universe’s 62 orders of magnitude.

Thinking Places

Jason Morgan Recalls Discovering Earth’s Tectonic Plates

By Natalie Wolchover +2 authors
Olena Shmahalo
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
August 28, 2017
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Jason Morgan developed the theory of plate tectonics in 1967 while working among a critical mass of talented geophysicists at Princeton University.


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