Why Adding a Full Hard Drive Can Make a Computer More Powerful
Those are pretty stringent constraints, so it wasn’t obvious that the extra memory could...
New Proofs Expand the Limits of What Cannot Be Known
In other words, Hilbert’s 10th problem is undecidable. Mathematicians hoped to follow the same...
The Saw-Toothed Function That Broke Calculus
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Calculus is a powerful...
Viewers of Quantum Events Are Also Subject to Uncertainty
It gets better. What if B is also anchored to a quantum object that’s...
The Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time
“It provides a natural framework, or a bookkeeping mechanism, to assemble very large numbers...
How Cells Resist the Pressure of the Deep Sea
To study the cell membranes of deep-sea animals, the biochemist Itay Budin (center) joined...
New Evidence Shows Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement
But not all questions about quantum systems are easier to answer using quantum algorithms....
The Quantum Mechanics of the Greenhouse Effect
A key question was the origin of the logarithmic scaling of the greenhouse effect—the...
The Vacuum of Space Will Decay Sooner Than Expected
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Vacuum decay, a process...
‘Gem’ of a Proof Breaks 80-Year-Old Record, Offers New Insights Into Prime Numbers
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometimes mathematicians try to...