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An Innovator Who Brings Order to an Infinitude of Equations
...Birkar’s travels (right). Video: Birkar discusses the need for originality in mathematics and in life. Photo by Philipp Ammon for Quanta Magazine; Illustration by Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Philipp Ammon for...
A Traveler Who Finds Stability in the Natural World
...of Durham University. Figalli in the math department of Durham University. Photo by Tom Parker for Quanta Magazine; Illustration by Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Tom Parker for Quanta Magazine Tom Parker...
A Math Theory for Why People Hallucinate
...senses.” Nigel Goldenfeld, a physicist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, hypothesizes that the stochastic Turing mechanism underlies visual hallucinations. aeforia and Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Seth Lowe for Quanta Magazine...
Closed Loophole Confirms the Unreality of the Quantum World
...the dragon’s body, which for a brief few weeks had come into focus, has gone back to being smoky and indistinct. This article was reprinted on Wired.com. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine...
The Hunt for Earth’s Deep Hidden Oceans
...2018, to correct a typographical error; it is the mantle, not the ocean, that could hold two or three times the amount of water in the oceans. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine...
A Classical Math Problem Gets Pulled Into the Modern World
...have Google and Tesla to thank — and also David Hilbert. This article was reprinted on Wired.com. A collision-free path can be guaranteed by a sum-of-squares algorithm. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine...
Stellar Disks Reveal How Planets Get Made
...ALMA observatory’s 66 antennas search the skies above the Chajnantor plateau in the Chilean Andes. Disk images by ESO; Adapted by Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine C. Ginski & SPHERE ESO/B. Tafreshi...
A New World’s Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine
...be pretty refreshing in the current age where the truth is on trial.” This article was reprinted on Wired.com, in Japanese at Wired.jp and in Spanish at Investigacionyciencia.es. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta...
A Chemist Shines Light on a Surprising Prime Number Pattern
...be perceived by number theorists. He has found a way to glimpse the pattern of the primes. “I actually think it’s stunning,” he said. “It’s a shock.” Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine...