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Males Are the Taller Sex. Estrogen, Not Fights for Mates, May Be Why.
...that may not be a trait that evolved through selection. It might be a purely incidental result of estrogen’s effects on bone growth. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine; source: 3D Molier International...
Black Hole Paradoxes Reveal a Fundamental Link Between Energy and Order
...found that the change in a black hole’s extremal limit matches its change in entropy. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Carnegie Mellon University; Christine Goon Vincent Su, UC Berkeley; Meimei Dong; Caltech...
Wormholes Reveal a Way to Manipulate Black Hole Information in the Lab
...used to control atom-based quantum bits. Individual atoms in Monroe’s lab are held in place by electrodes. Laser light causes the atoms to fluoresce. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Courtesy of Christopher...
New Exoplanet Search Strategy Claims First Discovery
...magnetic field strips about 1,000 kilograms of material off of Io. Charged particles from Jupiter’s moons streak down the planet’s magnetic field lines, triggering auroras at its poles. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta...
An Idea From Physics Helps AI See in Higher Dimensions
...The new deep learning techniques, which have shown promise in identifying lung tumors in CT scans more accurately than before, could someday lead to better medical diagnostics. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine...
Continents of the Underworld Come Into Focus
...year, researchers argued that the 60-degree kink in the chain was caused by the influence of the Pacific blob. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine; source data: Sanne Cottaar National Geophysical Data Center/USGS...
The Year in Physics
...patterns of still-hidden cosmic triangles in the sky. Event Horizon Telescope collaboration et al. Patryk Hardziej for Quanta Magazine ©️ CERN Mike Zeng for Quanta Magazine Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine...
The Year in Biology
...the realities of how evolution works. Corey Brickley for Quanta Magazine Alexandre Tamisier for Quanta Magazine Jason Lyon for Quanta Magazine Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Eric Nyquist for Quanta Magazine...
Cosmic Triangles Open a Window to the Origin of Time
...collaborators on a recent effort to infer the possible patterns in the sky that could arise from particle dynamics at the beginning of time. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine NASA; ESA; G....