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Why the Many-Worlds Interpretation Has Many Problems
...it is unspoken. The theories of evolution or plate tectonics don’t have to include some element that says “you are here, observing this stuff”; we can take that for granted....
How Nearby Stellar Explosions Could Have Killed Off Large Animals
...cosmic events affect Earth — even whether they have altered the course of evolution. A new study suggests that energetic particles from an exploding star may have contributed to the...
Asteroid Rate Jumped in Solar System’s Past
...few hundred million years of evolution on our planet occurred in a universe where the danger setting had been dialed up just a little higher. Dinosaurs, flowering plants, early primates...
An Astrophysicist Who Maps the Universe’s Terra Incognita
...quasars, turn off, shine — until today. It’s paradoxical that we have a theory, the “standard model of cosmology,” that perfectly captures the evolution of the universe, even though 95...
Priyamvada Natarajan: How Black Holes Shape Galaxies
Priyamvada Natarajan explains the role of supermassive black holes in the structure and evolution of the universe. Sasha Maslov for Quanta Magazine...
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science
The latest AI algorithms are probing the evolution of galaxies, calculating quantum wave functions, discovering new chemical compounds and more. Is there anything that scientists do that can’t be automated?...
Scientists Discover Exotic New Patterns of Synchronization
...Kuramoto observed in an email. “Without a doubt, the processes of biological evolution must have developed this highly useful mechanism. I expect man-made systems will also become much more functionally...
The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries
...imagine it any other way. Clearly, some aspects of nature — like the orbits of the planets — are the result of history and accident, not symmetry. Biological evolution is...
A Mathematician Whose Only Constant Is Change
...of rules. For example, the evolution of the solar system, in its idealized form, unfolds exactly according to the rules of gravity. And so where our solar system is a...