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Why Triangles Are Easy and Tetrahedra Are Hard
...order. Correction: February 1, 2022 This column has been revised to correct a typographic error. 3 × 90° + 3 × 54.74°≈ 434.22° (not 432.22). Olena Shmahalo for Quanta Magazine...
Evolution ‘Landscapes’ Predict What’s Next for COVID Virus
...the protein cannot evolve easily because mutations there stop the protein from working. Olena Shmahalo for Quanta Magazine Courtesy of Tyler Starr; Courtesy of Jesse Bloom Courtesy of Tyler Starr...
Euler’s 243-Year-Old ‘Impossible’ Puzzle Gets a Quantum Solution
...not discussed the paper. A classically intractable problem that asks for a 6-by-6 arrangement of military officers can be solved, so long as the officers are quantum. Olena Shmahalo for...
The Year in Math and Computer Science
...Langlands conjectures. Emily Buder/Quanta Magazine; Rui Braz and Myriam Wares for Quanta Magazine Grace Park for Quanta Magazine Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Matteo Bassini for Quanta Magazine...
Cosmologists Parry Attacks on the Vaunted Cosmological Principle
...early 1990s. The distortion is widely thought to result from our solar system’s motion, but a few cosmologists think the whole universe might drift. Olena Shmahalo for Quanta Magazine NASA...
Mathematicians Transcend Geometric Theory of Motion
...of this article stated that the phase space of a pendulum is a torus. It is actually a cylinder. The article has been updated accordingly. Olena Shmahalo for Quanta Magazine...
New Brain Maps Can Predict Behaviors
...insect’s ability to navigate. Olena Shmahalo for Quanta Magazine; source: Daniel Berger and Jeff Lichtman/Lichtman Lab at Harvard University Google/Lichtman Laboratory Olena Shmahalo for Quanta Magazine; source: Virtual Worm Project...
Quantum Simulators Create a Totally New Phase of Matter
...handful of atoms we can do things that no supercomputer can calculate.” A quantum spin liquid can form when atoms are placed in a trianglelike Kagome lattice. Olena Shmahalo for...
Researchers Defeat Randomness to Create Ideal Code
...that had an excellent combination of properties, but it failed to be at all locally testable. Olena Shmahalo for Quanta Magazine Bryce Vickmark; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation...