
Janna Levin
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3 weeks ago |
buff.ly | Conor Feehly |Gabriel Popkin |Molly Herring |Janna Levin
Introduction You’ve just gotten home from an exhausting day. All you want to do is put your feet up and zone out to whatever is on television. Though the inactivity may feel like a well-earned rest, your brain is not just chilling. In fact, it is using nearly as much energy as it did during your stressful activity, according to recent research.
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2 months ago |
quantamagazine.org | Anil Ananthaswamy |Ben Brubaker |Webb Wright |Janna Levin
Language isn’t always necessary. While it certainly helps in getting across certain ideas, some neuroscientists have argued that many forms of human thought and reasoning don’t require the medium of words and grammar. Sometimes, the argument goes, having to turn ideas into language actually slows down the thought process. Now there’s intriguing evidence that certain artificial intelligence systems could also benefit from “thinking” independently of language.
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Jan 16, 2025 |
quantamagazine.org | Charlie Wood |Henry Carnell |Janna Levin |Natalie Wolchover
Introduction Sunlight melts snowflakes. Fire turns logs into soot and smoke. A hot oven will make a magnet lose its pull. Physicists know from countless examples that if you crank the temperature high enough, structures and patterns break down. Now, though, they’ve cooked up a striking exception.
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Jan 10, 2025 |
quantamagazine.org | Henry Carnell |Janna Levin |Natalie Wolchover |Zack Savitsky
Introduction Many discoveries in physics flow from theory to experiment. Albert Einstein theorized that mass bends the fabric of space-time, and then Arthur Eddington observed the effects of this bending during a solar eclipse. Likewise, Peter Higgs first proposed the existence of the Higgs boson; nearly 50 years later, the particle was discovered at the Large Hadron Collider. Hadronization is different.
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Dec 13, 2024 |
quantamagazine.org | Zack Savitsky |Henry Carnell |Janna Levin |Natalie Wolchover
Introduction Life is an anthology of destruction. Everything you build eventually breaks. Everyone you love will die. Any sense of order or stability inevitably crumbles. The entire universe follows a dismal trek toward a dull state of ultimate turmoil. To keep track of this cosmic decay, physicists employ a concept called entropy.
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