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The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature
...at Rutgers University who recently visited Furey in Cambridge after watching an online series of lecture videos she made about her work. Furey has yet to construct a simple octonionic...
Evolutionary Math and Just-So Stories
...well established. In part, this is because of the small size of such islands and the isolation that they provide to an evolving species. In a recent Quanta article, “Mathematics...
Black Hole Firewalls Could Be Too Tepid to Burn
...you come closer and closer it gets hotter and hotter, and that’s what causes the burning,” he explained. In recent years, Mathur has been refining his “fuzzball” description, and his...
The End of Theoretical Physics as We Know It
...are relentlessly pushing the limits, searching for new mathematical strategies. But in recent years much of the pushing has come not from more sophisticated math but from more computing power....
DNA Analysis Reveals a Genus of Plants Hiding in Plain Sight
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...
Solution: ‘How Equality and Inequality Shape Birds and Bees’
...recent sole ancestor of all the individuals in the female and male lineages? This problem can be solved by figuring out the probabilities that the offspring of any one of...
Quanta Writers and Editors Discuss Trends in Science and Math
...I mentioned the search for rational solutions to polynomial equations. There’s — there’s like several kind of exciting initiatives in that respect. One mathematician recently — I know — I...
Mathematical Simplicity May Drive Evolution’s Speed
...of thinking (genetic programming in particular) overlap conceptually with a mathematical theory that’s largely hovered on the sidelines of both biology and computer science. A handful of scientists have recently...
On the Best Use of Science to Safeguard Humanity
...can then compare that model to things we see in the sky. Of the recent breakthroughs, which excites you most? Exoplanets. Well, I think everyone is excited by that. At...