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David Kaplan explores the leading theories for the origin of life on our planet.

How Did Life Begin on Earth?

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David Kaplan explores the leading theories for the origin of life on our planet.

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Filming for this video by Petr Stepanek. Editing and motion graphics by Ryan Griffin. Music by Kai Engel.


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A video exploring the quantum complexity of black holes.
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Can a New Law of Physics Explain a Black Hole Paradox?

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Leonard Susskind and collaborators set out to understand why black hole interiors grow forever. They ended up proposing a new law of physics.

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The Digital Quest for Quantum Gravity

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Renate Loll describes her theory of causal dynamical triangulations and how it might unlock certain aspects of quantum gravity.

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How a Computer Broke a 50-Year Math Record

Christopher Webb Young/Quanta Magazine; Emily Zhang for Quanta Magazine

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DeepMind researchers trained an AI system called AlphaTensor to find new, faster algorithms for matrix multiplication. AlphaTensor quickly rediscovered — and surpassed, for some cases — the reigning algorithm discovered by German mathematician Volker Strassen in 1969.

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She Tracks Wildlife eDNA on Everest and in the Andes

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Video: Christopher Webb Young/Quanta Magazine

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Tracie Seimon of the WCS’s Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory describes her biodiversity research, which is based on eDNA — DNA collected from the environment.

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The Computer Scientist Taking on Big Tech: Privacy, Lies and AI

Christopher Webb Young/Quanta Magazine; Rick Cook for Quanta Magazine

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Narayanan discusses his work on de-anonymization and fairness and why it
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Could One Physics Theory Unlock the Mysteries of the Brain?

Taylor Hess, Noah Hutton, Emily Buder, Rui Braz and Myriam Wares for Quanta Magazine

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The phenomenon of criticality can explain the sudden emergence of new properties in a wide range of complex systems, from avalanches to flocks of birds to stock market crashes. Neuroscientists are now seeking evidence that criticality is at work in the brain’s networks of neurons.

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2022’s Biggest Breakthroughs in Math

Christopher Webb Young (video) and Myriam Wares (cover) for Quanta Magazine

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In 2022, mathematicians solved a centuries-old geometry question, proved the best way to minimize the surface area of clusters of up to five bubbles and proved a sweeping statement about how structure emerges in random sets and graphs.

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Wormhole in the Lab

Emily Buder, Bongani Mlambo, Ibrahim Rayintakath, Rui Braz and Kim Taylor for Quanta Magazine; Kristina Armitage/Quanta Magazine

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Wormholes were first envisioned almost a century ago, but it would take a number of theoretical leaps and a “crazy” team of experimentalists to build one on a quantum computer.

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The High Schooler Who Solved a Prime Number Theorem

Photo by Katherine Taylor for Quanta Magazine; Video by Emily Buder, Noah Hutton, Taylor Hess and Rui Braz for Quanta Magazine

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Daniel Larsen wouldn’t let go of an old question about Carmichael numbers. “It was just stubbornness on my part,” he said.


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