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The Musical, Magical Number Theorist
The search for artistic truth and beauty has led Manjul Bhargava to some of the most profound recent discoveries in number theory. For Manjul Bhargava, the counting numbers don’t simply...
A Theory of Reality as More Than the Sum of Its Parts
...way, by scaling the wall or otherwise, of touching Juliet’s lips directly.” Erik Hoel, a 29-year-old theoretical neuroscientist and writer, quoted the passage in a recent essay in which he...
Where Gravity Is Weak and Naked Singularities Are Verboten
Recent calculations tie together two conjectures about gravity, potentially revealing new truths about its elusive quantum nature. Physicists have wondered for decades whether infinitely dense points known as singularities can...
Lucky Break Leads to Controversial Supernova Discovery
Supernova hunters were able to train their telescopes on a recent eruption just hours after it exploded. What they found only adds to the growing list of questions surrounding these...
Mini-Brains Go Modular
...mini or otherwise. But a trio of recent publications suggests that cerebral-organoid science may be turning a corner — and that the future of such brain studies may depend less...
Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes
...holes seem to vanish without a trace. This total erasure of information breaks the rules of quantum mechanics, and it so puzzles experts that in recent years, some have argued...
Physicists Mourn Joe Polchinski, Developer of Deep Ideas and Paradoxes
...share of lasting developments without following trends or getting into ruts. In important recent work, Polchinski reinvigorated an old paradox about black holes. Quantum fluctuations near the horizons of black...
First Big Steps Toward Proving the Unique Games Conjecture
...takes theoretical computer scientists halfway toward proving one of the biggest conjectures in their field. The new study, when combined with three other recent papers, offers the first tangible progress...
Why Earth’s Cracked Crust May Be Essential for Life
Life needs more than water alone. Recent discoveries suggest that plate tectonics has played a critical role in nourishing life on Earth. The findings carry major consequences for the search...