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Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton

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Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton

By CHARLIE WOOD

Long-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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NEUROSCIENCE

 

Tiny Tweaks to Neurons Can Rewire Animal Motion

By ELISE CUTTS

Altering a protein in the neurons that coordinate a rattlesnake's movement made a slow slither neuron more like a speedy rattle neuron, showing one way evolution can generate new ways of moving.

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Brain Chemical Helps Signal
to Neurons When to Start a Movement

By Allison Whitten (2022)

THE JOY OF WHY

 

What Is Quantum Teleportation?

Podcast hosted by JANNA LEVIN

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.

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QUANTUM COMPUTING

 

Physicists Finally Find a Problem Only Quantum Computers Can Do

By LAKSHMI CHANDRASEKARAN

Researchers have shown that a problem about the energy of a quantum system is easy for quantum computers but hard for classical ones.

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Related: 
The Quest to Quantify Quantumness

By Charlie Wood (2023)

Q&A

 

A Mathematician On Creativity, Art, Logic and Language

By JORDANA CEPELEWICZ

Claire Voisin, the recipient of the 2024 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics, discusses math as art, math as language, and math as abstract thought.

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Related: 
A Mathematician Dancing Between Disciplines

By Rachel Crowell (2022)

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