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Taming Superconductors With String Theory
...to apply his insights to high-temperature superconductors themselves. Quanta Magazine spoke with Sachdev about how the electrons in high-temperature superconductors are related to black holes, his recent success with graphene,...
The Beasts That Keep the Beat
...not display much rhythmic talent in the lab. The findings seemed to fit a hypothesis Patel had recently conceived: Musical rhythm, he argued, is a byproduct of “vocal learning” —...
Janna Levin’s Theory of Doing Everything
...end of March, chronicles the dramatic history of the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) experiment, from its fanciful conception in the 1960s to its recent, triumphant detection of gravitational waves...
Hope That an Old Drug Might Treat Zika
...biochemist at the University of California, San Francisco, in our recent article “New Insights Into How Zika Harms the Brain.” DeRisi recently co-authored a paper that highlights a promising option....
Meet the New Math, Unlike the Old Math
...have to take that is completely contrary to what they’re doing in the classroom, that can be problematic.” There is progress in that direction. Two recent initiatives, the Partnership for...
Solution: ‘Taming Quantum Weirdness’
...are correct, then we have to give up one of three reasonable assumptions about the world. In a recent Quanta article Natalie Wolchover explains how: … when two particles interact,...
Evolution Runs Faster on Short Timescales
...course of evolutionary history. Without a concrete way to calculate the shifts in evolutionary rates over time, scientists couldn’t compare dates. Recently, Aris Katzourakis, a paleovirologist at the University of...
Game Theory Calls Cooperation Into Question
...play a series of games with every other member of their group. The outcome of his experiments, the most recent of which was published in December in the Proceedings of...
Interactive: What Is Space?
...vexed Albert Einstein — and space-time geometry at the smallest scales.” How might entanglement stitch together the structured fabric of space-time? One compelling recent idea, writes K.C. Cole in “Wormholes...