Quanta

Quanta

[:es]The Hard Lessons of Modeling the Coronavirus Pandemic[:]

[:es]In the fight against COVID-19, disease modelers have struggled with misunderstanding and misuse of their work. They have also come to realize how unready the state of modeling was for […]
Quanta

[:es]Topology 101: The Hole Truth[:]

[:es]The relationships among the properties of flexible shapes have fascinated mathematicians for centuries. [:]
Quanta

[: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. [:]
Quanta

[:es]Secret Ingredient Found to Power Supernovas[:]

[:es]Three-dimensional supernova simulations have solved the mystery of why they explode at all. [:]
Quanta

[: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.[:]
Quanta

[: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.[:]
Quanta

[: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?[:]
Quanta

[: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.[:]
Quanta

[: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.[:]