Kalai argues that limiting the noise in a quantum computer will also limit the computational power of the system.
Neil Johnson on the physics of collective human behavior.
Svitlana Mayboroda describes how the landscape function helps solve the mystery of wave localization.
Jay Pasachoff explains what scientists can learn during a total solar eclipse.
The UCLA astrophysicist Andrea Ghez explains how tracking the movement of stars revealed the existence of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
Jessica Flack describes the special challenges of applying collective computation to the understanding of complex biological systems.
Purvesh Khatri learned that by working with ‘messy’ clinical data sets, he could find genes that the human body expresses in response to diverse forms of a disease.
Join David Kaplan on a virtual-reality tour showing how the sun, the Earth and the other planets came to be.
Tim Maudlin explains how math has led physicists to believe some very strange things about the nature of time.
John Novembre explains how he uses genomic data to map human history.