Quanta

[:es]Collaborations in progress between ethicists and biologists seek to head off challenges raised by lab-grown “organoids” as they become increasingly similar to human brain tissue.[:]

[:es]A curious physicist has discovered an unexpected link between theoretical block collisions and a famed quantum search algorithm.[:]

[:es]Arctic ice is disappearing — the question is how fast. Summer sea ice could endure 100 more years, or it could vanish later this decade, with disastrous consequences for the […]

[:es]The dendritic arms of some human neurons can perform logic operations that once seemed to require whole neural networks.[:]

[:es]Snow crystals come in two main types. The “pope” of snowflake physics has a new theory that explains why.[:]

[:es]Researchers have spent centuries looking for a scenario in which the Euler fluid equations fail. Now a mathematician has finally found one.[:]

[:es]Giant blobs nestled deep in the Earth may influence everything from the structure of island chains to mass-extinction events. [:]

[:es]A study challenged the evidence for the mysterious antigravitational force known as dark energy. Then cosmologists shot back. [:]

[:es]Mathematicians regard the Collatz conjecture as a quagmire and warn each other to stay away. But now Terence Tao has made more progress than anyone in decades.[:]