Sinopsis
In-depth news about mathematics, physics, biology and computer science.
Episodios
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What Could Explain the Gallium Anomaly?
26/11/2024 Duración: 14minPhysicists have ruled out a mundane explanation for the strange findings of an old Soviet experiment, leaving open the possibility that the results point to a new fundamental particle.
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Cryptographers Discover a New Foundation for Quantum Secrecy
13/11/2024 Duración: 20minResearchers have proved that secure quantum encryption is possible in a world without hard problems.
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Electric 'Ripples' in the Resting Brain Tag Memories for Storage
30/10/2024 Duración: 19minNew experiments reveal how the brain chooses which memories to save and add credence to advice about the importance of rest.
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AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory's Near-Endless Possibilities
16/10/2024 Duración: 25minUsing machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into sets of elementary particles — though not yet those of our universe.
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Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare
02/10/2024 Duración: 18minA group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience consciousness.
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Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds
18/09/2024 Duración: 20minA generation of physicists has referred to the dark energy that permeates the universe as “the cosmological constant.” Now the largest map of the cosmos to date hints that this mysterious energy has been changing over billions of years.
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Brain's 'Background Noise' May Explain Value of Shock Therapy
04/09/2024 Duración: 12minElectroconvulsive therapy is highly effective in treating major depressive disorder, but no one knows why it works. New research suggests it may restore balance between excitation and inhibition in the brain.
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Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton
21/08/2024 Duración: 17minLong-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of energies, forces and pressures inside a subatomic particle for the first time.
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Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information
07/08/2024 Duración: 17minTwo researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are mathematically equivalent to a kind of quantum error correction. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Quasi Motion” by Kevin MacLeod.
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Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe's Biggest Magnetic Fields
25/07/2024 Duración: 11minA controversial technique has produced detailed maps of the magnetic fields in colossal galaxy clusters. If confirmed, the approach could be used to reveal where cosmic magnetic fields come from.
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New Clues for What Will Happen When the Sun Eats the Earth
10/07/2024 Duración: 13minRecent observations of an aging, alien planetary system are helping to answer the question: What will happen to our planet when the sun dies? Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Dark Toys” by SYBS.
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New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain and Beyond
26/06/2024 Duración: 21minRecent efforts to map every cell in the human body have researchers floored by unfathomable diversity, with many thousands of subtly different types of cells in the human brain alone. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Confusing Disco” by Birocratic.
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Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms
11/06/2024 Duración: 25minAstronomers thought they had solved the mystery of gamma-ray bursts. A few recent events suggest otherwise. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Light Gazing” by Andrew Langdon.
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Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons
29/05/2024 Duración: 20minFor 50 years, physicists have understood current as a flow of charged particles. But a new experiment has found that in at least one strange material, this understanding falls apart. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Thought Bot” by Audionautix.
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In the Gut's 'Second Brain,' Key Agents of Health Emerge
15/05/2024 Duración: 17minSitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which play key roles in digestion and disease that scientists are only just starting to understand. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Running Out” by Patrick Patrikios.
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During Pregnancy, a Fake 'Infection' Protects the Fetus
01/05/2024 Duración: 09minCells in the placenta have an unusual trick for activating gentle immune defenses and keeping them turned on when no infection is present. It involves crafting and deploying a fake virus. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Unanswered Questions” by Kevin MacLeod.
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Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better
17/04/2024 Duración: 21minThe discovery that the brain has different systems for representing small and large numbers provokes new questions about memory, attention and mathematics. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Quasi Motion” by Kevin MacLeod.
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Inside Scientists' Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption
03/04/2024 Duración: 22minThe Reykjanes Peninsula has entered a new volcanic era. Innovative efforts to map and monitor the subterranean magma are saving lives. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Fire Water” by Saidbysed.
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Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory
20/03/2024 Duración: 20minA new magnum opus posits the existence of a hidden mathematical link akin to the connection between electricity and magnetism. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Clover 3” by Vibe Mountain.
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Tiny Language Models Come of Age
06/03/2024 Duración: 20minTo better understand how neural networks learn to simulate writing, researchers trained simpler versions on synthetic children’s stories. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Thought Bot” by Audionautix.