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The Year in Physics
...lead to a breakthrough or a dead end. Santi Visalli/Getty Images Victor Mosquera for Quanta Magazine Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Susannah Ireland for Quanta Magazine Maciej Rebisz for Quanta Magazine...
Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black Hole
...Light from the four telescopes at the Very Large Telescope array in Cerro Paranal, Chile, can be combined to create, in effect, a single, enormous telescope. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine ESO...
Scientists Learn the Ropes on Tying Molecular Knots
...directed self-assembly techniques, chemists are making tiny molecular knots in their labs. The illustration portrays the structure of a five-crossing knot synthesized in 2011. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine; Source: David Leigh...
Why the Many-Worlds Interpretation Has Many Problems
...are a dead end. But there is no point then sitting there insisting we have found the way out. We need to go back and keep searching. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine...
Planets Found to Be Larger Than the Disks They Come From
...dusty disk swirling around HL Tauri features many bright rings. Astronomers believe that the gaps between the rings are being carved out by nascent planets. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine ALMA Observatory...
DNA Analysis Reveals a Genus of Plants Hiding in Plain Sight
...even he had about this specimen: The heading “Aroidea dubia” means “doubtfully an aroid.” Haarkon for Quanta Magazine Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine; Cassia Sakuragui, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Haarkon...
A Number Theorist Who Bridges Math and Time
...years to discover. Photo by Sasha Maslov for Quanta Magazine; Illustration by Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Sasha Maslov for Quanta Magazine Sasha Maslov for Quanta Magazine Sasha Maslov for Quanta Magazine...
A Poet of Computation Who Uncovers Distant Truths
...Daskalakis on why he studies the interface between theoretical computer science and human behavior. Photo by Cassandra Klos for Quanta Magazine; Illustration by Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Cassandra Klos for Quanta...
A Master of Numbers and Shapes Who Is Rewriting Arithmetic
...his work on perfectoid spaces, Scholze has been called “one of the most influential mathematicians in the world.” Photo by Nyani Quarmyne for Quanta Magazine; Illustration by Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine...