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Sea Monkeys Show Scientists How To Rewrite a Rule of Turbulence - Quanta Magazine

In the 1960s and 70s, colorful comic book advertisements from the Transcience Corporation in New York City promised to mail anyone who sent cash, check, or money order a bowlfull of happiness in real…

Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings - Quanta Magazine

I get out of bed. I walk through the dimly lit hallway, thinking of whats in my fridge and what I should have for breakfast. With no real effort, Ive navigated my environment, accessed my memory, and…

Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich - Quanta Magazine

In 2004, two mathematicians hypothesized a powerful kind of sandwich. They were studying graphs, which are collections of points (called vertices) and lines (called edges). Graphs might represent an…

Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders. - Quanta Magazine

Around 700 million years ago, a group of organisms resembling little more than glowing, gelatinous blobs split off from the rest of the animals, forming possibly the earliest branching animal lineage…

Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar Over Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots.’ - Quanta Magazine

Many astronomers concluded that big black holes dotted the universe, washing out the light of the stars in their host galaxies. As black holes, the little red dots would appear red because dust grain…

Why Do These Fossil Shells Flip Their Spirals Every Few Millennia? - Quanta Magazine

Its probably one of the first times that people who usually do more biostratigraphy basically, deep-time research on foraminifera are approaching such a question, said Julie Meilland, a researcher at…

Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble - Quanta Magazine

We like to think of it as a baseball hitter that strikes out a lot, but when they do hit, its a home run, said Douglas Soltis, a plant evolutionary geneticist at the Florida Museum of Natural History…

Does Computer Science Need Computers? - Quanta Magazine

The pioneering computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra, winner of the 1972 A.M. Turing Award and inventor of one of the most iconic algorithms in all of computing, was nothing if not opinionated. Certain …