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AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory's Near-Endless Possibilities

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Mathematicians Marvel at 'Crazy' Cuts Through Four Dimensions

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Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare

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Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits

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How do machines ‘grok’ data?

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Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds

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The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona has produced the...
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona has produced the largest 3D map of our universe to date. Marilyn Sargent/The Regents of the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Physicists have deduced subtle hints that the mysterious “dark” ener...
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Topologists Tackle the Trouble with Poll Placement

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The Researcher Who Explores Computation by Conjuring New Worlds

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“Emergent” abilities in LLMs actually develop gradually and predictably – study

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Two years ago, in a project called the Beyond the Imitation Game benchmark, or BIG-bench, 450...
Two years ago, in a project called the Beyond the Imitation Game benchmark, or BIG-bench, 450 researchers compiled a list of 204 tasks designed to test the capabilities of large language models, which power chatbots like ChatGPT. On most tasks, performance improved predictably and smoothly as the models scaled up — ...
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Doubts grow about the biosignature approach to alien-hunting

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How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute

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Your grade school teacher probably didn’t show you how to add 20-digit numbers. But if you...
Your grade school teacher probably didn’t show you how to add 20-digit numbers. But if you know how to add smaller numbers, all you need is paper and pencil and a bit of patience. Start with the ones place and work leftward step by step, and soon you’ll be stacking up quintillions with ease. Problems like this are e...
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Michel Talagrand Wins Abel Prize for Work Wrangling Randomness

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Random processes take place all around us. It rains one day but not the next; stocks...
Random processes take place all around us. It rains one day but not the next; stocks and bonds gain and lose value; traffic jams coalesce and disappear. Because they’re governed by numerous factors that interact with one another in complicated ways, it’s impossible to predict the exact behavior of such systems. Inst...
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A Mathematician on Creativity, Art, Logic and Language

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Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton

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Physicists Finally Find a Problem for Quantum Computers Alone

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Carlos Arrojo for Quanta Magazine Quantum computers are poised to become computational superpowers, but researchers have...
Carlos Arrojo for Quanta Magazine Quantum computers are poised to become computational superpowers, but researchers have long sought a viable problem that confers a quantum advantage — something only a quantum computer can solve. Only then, they argue, will the technology finally be seen as essential. They’ve been l...
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New Breakthrough Brings Matrix Multiplication Closer to Ideal

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Merrill Sherman/Quanta Magazine Computer scientists are a demanding bunch. For them, it’s not enough to get...
Merrill Sherman/Quanta Magazine Computer scientists are a demanding bunch. For them, it’s not enough to get the right answer to a problem — the goal, almost always, is to get the answer as efficiently as possible. Take the act of multiplying matrices, or arrays of numbers. In 1812, the French mathematician Jacques P...
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Elliptic Curve 'Murmurations' Found with AI Take Flight

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Elliptic curves are among the more beguiling objects in modern mathematics. They don’t seem complicated, but...
Elliptic curves are among the more beguiling objects in modern mathematics. They don’t seem complicated, but they form an expressway between the math that many people learn in high school and research mathematics at its most abstruse. They were central to Andrew Wiles’ celebrated proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in th...
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The Theorist Who Sees Math in Art, Music and Writing

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'Entropy Bagels' and Other Complex Structures Emerge from Simple Rules

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Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information

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Samuel Velasco/Quanta Magazine If you want to tile a bathroom floor, square tiles are the simplest...
Samuel Velasco/Quanta Magazine If you want to tile a bathroom floor, square tiles are the simplest option — they fit together without any gaps in a grid pattern that can continue indefinitely. That square grid has a property shared by many other tilings: Shift the whole grid over by a fixed amount, and the resulting...
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Unfolding the Mysteries of Polygonal Billiards

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A 'Lobby' Where a Molecule Mob Tells Genes What to Do

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Gene regulation in humans and other complex organisms is an elaborate process involving many molecular factors...
Gene regulation in humans and other complex organisms is an elaborate process involving many molecular factors that can have opposing effects. Nan Cao for Quanta Magazine The discovery during the Human Genome Project in the early 2000s that we humans have only about 20,000 protein-coding genes — about as many as the...
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Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’

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To See Black Holes in Detail, She Uses 'Echoes' Like a Bat

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February 12, 2024Erin Kara studies the supermassive black holes that pin galaxies to the fabric of...
February 12, 2024Erin Kara studies the supermassive black holes that pin galaxies to the fabric of the cosmos. Katherine Taylor for Quanta Magazine Unlike many astronomers, Erin Kara didn’t grow up star-struck. “I don’t have that story of being that little kid staring up at the stars and wanting to do this, which ga...
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