What Is Quantum Teleportation? - Quanta Magazine
Mar 14, 2024 · Teleporting people through space is still science fiction. But quantum teleportation is dramatically different and entirely real. In this episode, Janna Levin interviews the theoretical physicist John Preskill about teleporting bits and the promise of quantum technology.
New Clues for What Will Happen When the Sun Eats the Earth
Dec 20, 2023 · Earth’s fate rests on a coin flip. In 5 billion years, our sun will balloon into a red giant star. Whether Earth survives is an “open question,” said Melinda Soares-Furtado, an astrophysicist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.Sure, Earth …
Physics News, Interviews and Columns | Quanta Magazine
Dec 17, 2024 · Quanta’s award-winning coverage of astrophysics, cosmology, quantum physics, geophysics, condensed matter, statistical mechanics, chaos theory, climate science and more.
Why Is It So Hard to Define a Species? | Quanta Magazine
Oct 24, 2024 · The idea of a species is fundamental to the way that many people understand the structure of life on Earth. But ask 10 specialists how they define the concept and you might get 10 answers. In this episode, co-host Janna Levin speaks with evolutionary biologist Kevin de Queiroz about what makes defining and delineating species such a slippery process, and why it matters to our understanding of ...
How to Think About Relativity - Quanta Magazine
Nov 14, 2022 · The development of relativity is usually attributed to Albert Einstein, but he provided the capstone for a theoretical edifice that had been under construction since James Clerk Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism into …
How Earth’s Climate Changes Naturally (and Why Things Are …
Jul 21, 2020 · Faint Young Sun. Magnitude: No net temperature effect. Time frame: Constant. Though the sun’s brightness fluctuates on shorter timescales, it brightens overall by 0.009% per million years, and it has brightened by 48% since the birth of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago.. Scientists reason that the faintness of the young sun should have meant that Earth remained frozen solid for the ...
A New Map of All the Particles and Forces | Quanta Magazine
Oct 22, 2020 · This approach doesn’t offer insight into the relationships between the particles. The force-carrying particles (namely the photon, which conveys the electromagnetic force; the W and Z bosons, which convey the weak force; and the gluons, which convey the strong force) are put on the same footing as the matter particles those forces act …
Why Euler’s Number Is Just the Best | Quanta Magazine
Nov 24, 2021 · Last month, we presented three puzzles that seemed ordinary enough but contained a numerical twist. Hidden below the surface was the mysterious transcendental number e.Most familiar as the base of natural logarithms, Euler’s number e is a universal constant with an infinite decimal expansion that begins with 2.7 1828 1828 45 90 45… (spaces added to highlight the quasi-pattern in the first ...
Math News, Interviews and Columns From Quanta Magazine
Dec 11, 2024 · Quanta’s award-winning coverage of algebra, geometry, set theory, number theory, analysis, knot theory, topology, combinatorics, mathematical physics and more.
Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare
Apr 19, 2024 · The new declaration, signed by biologists and philosophers, formally embraces that view. It reads, in part: “The empirical evidence indicates at least a realistic possibility of conscious experience in all vertebrates (including all reptiles, amphibians and fishes) and many invertebrates (including, at minimum, cephalopod mollusks, decapod crustaceans and insects).”