The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Ever since viruses came to light in the late 1800s, scientists have set them apart from the ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Our sun is the best-observed star in the entire universe.We see its light every day. For ...
You can create a graph with the angle as the x-axis and the speed as the y-axis. But since traveling 360 degrees brings you back to the start, you can sew ...
Beyond DESI, a slew of new instruments are coming online in the coming years, including the 8.4-meter Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile, NASA’s Nancy Grace ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In Georgia’s 2020 gubernatorial election, some voters in Atlanta waited over 10 hours to cast ...
“How are matter and energy distributed?” asked Peter Schweitzer, a theoretical physicist at the University of Connecticut. “We don’t know.”Schweitzer has ...
The third factor is the probability of a lifeless planet producing the observed signal—an equally serious challenge, researchers now realize, that’s tangled ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In recent decades, neuroscience has seen some stunning advances, and yet a critical part of ...