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The Mystery of How Supermassive Black Holes Merge
However, modeling has shown that it is difficult to scatter enough stars toward the black holes to solve…
Mathematicians Just Debunked the ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’
Their result shows the importance of not taking anything for granted, said Noga Alon, a mathematician at Princeton.…
Scientists Establish the Best Algorithm for Traversing a Map
“It’s a great algorithm,” said Erik Demaine, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “It’s very…
The Incredible Power of Quantum Memory
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. It’s not easy to study quantum systems—collections of…
The Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time
“It provides a natural framework, or a bookkeeping mechanism, to assemble very large numbers of Feynman diagrams,” said…
The Vagus Nerve’s Crucial Role in Creating the Human Sense of Mind
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. It is late at night. You are alone…
New Evidence Shows Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement
But not all questions about quantum systems are easier to answer using quantum algorithms. Some are equally easy…
Stephen Hawking Was Wrong—Extremal Black Holes Are Possible
Now two mathematicians have proved Hawking and his colleagues wrong. The new work—contained in a pair of recent papers by Christoph Kehle of…
The Biggest Controversy in Cosmology Just Got Bigger
A long-awaited study of the cosmic expansion rate suggests that when it comes to the Hubble tension, cosmologists…
Students Find New Evidence of the Impossibility of Complete Disorder
A new mathematic proof marks the first progress in decades on a problem about how order emerges. Source…