Quanta
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[:es]The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Clocks[:]
[:es]Studies of the simplest possible clocks have revealed their fundamental limitations — as well as insights into the nature of time itself.[:]
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[:es]How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron?[:]
[:es]Computational neuroscientists taught an artificial neural network to imitate a biological neuron. The result offers a new way to think about the complexity of single brain cells.[:]
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[:es]The Brain Doesn’t Think the Way You Think It Does[:]
[:es]Familiar categories of mental functions such as perception, memory and attention reflect our experience of ourselves, but they are misleading about how the brain works. More revealing approaches are emerging.[:]
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[:es]Proof Assistant Makes Jump to Big-League Math[:]
[:es]Mathematicians using the computer program Lean have verified the accuracy of a difficult theorem at the cutting edge of research mathematics.[:]
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[:es]A Soil-Science Revolution Upends Plans to Fight Climate Change[:]
[:es]A centuries-old concept in soil science has recently been thrown out. Yet it remains a key ingredient in everything from climate models to advanced carbon-capture projects.[:]
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[:es]How to Find Rational Points Like Your Job Depends on It[:]
[:es]Using high school algebra and geometry, and knowing just one rational point on a circle or elliptic curve, we can locate infinitely many others.[:]
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[:es]Plasmid, Virus or Other? DNA ‘Borgs’ Blur Boundaries.[:]
[:es]Scientists have reported large DNA structures in some archaea that defy easy categorization.[:]
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[:es]New Shape Opens ‘Wormhole’ Between Numbers and Geometry[:]
[:es]Laurent Fargues and Peter Scholze have found a new, more powerful way of connecting number theory and geometry as part of the sweeping Langlands program.[:]
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[:es]How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer.[:]
[:es]For 50 years, mathematicians have believed that the total number of real numbers is unknowable. A new proof suggests otherwise.[:]