Quanta
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[:es]Topology 101: The Hole Truth[:]
[:es]The relationships among the properties of flexible shapes have fascinated mathematicians for centuries. [:]
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[:es]Physicists Study How Universes Might Bubble Up and Collide[:]
[:es]Since they can’t prod actual universes as they inflate and bump into each other in the hypothetical multiverse, physicists are studying digital and physical analogs of the process. [:]
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[:es]Secret Ingredient Found to Power Supernovas[:]
[:es]Three-dimensional supernova simulations have solved the mystery of why they explode at all. [:]
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[:es]A Newfound Source of Cellular Order in the Chemistry of Life[:]
[:es]Inside cells, droplets of biomolecules called condensates merge, divide and dissolve. Their dance may regulate vital processes.[:]
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[:es]Mathematicians Resurrect Hilbert’s 13th Problem[:]
[:es]Long considered solved, David Hilbert’s question about seventh-degree polynomials is leading researchers to a new web of mathematical connections.[:]
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[:es]The Crooked Geometry of Round Trips[:]
[:es]Imagine if we lived on a cube-shaped Earth. How would you find the shortest path around the world?[:]
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[:es]New Quantum Algorithms Finally Crack Nonlinear Equations[:]
[:es]Two teams found different ways for quantum computers to process nonlinear systems by first disguising them as linear ones.[:]
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[:es]The Mystery of Mistletoe’s Missing Genes[:]
[:es]Mistletoes have all but shut down the powerhouses of their cells. Scientists are still trying to understand the plants’ unorthodox survival strategy.[:]
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[:es]How Claude Shannon Invented the Future[:]
[:es]Today’s information age is only possible thanks to the groundbreaking work of a lone genius.[:]