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Math and Science News from Quanta Magazine View this email in your browser GEOPHYSICS | ALL TOPICS   The Search for What Shook the Earth for Nine Days Straight By ROBIN GEORGE ANDREWS Last year, an immense but brief outburst of seismic energy was soon followed by a long hum that made the world ring. Finding its cause took 68 scientists and an assist by the Danish military. Read the article BIOPHYSICS   The Cellular Secret to Resisting the Pressure of the Deep Sea By YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU Cell membranes from comb jellies reveal a new kind of adaptation to the deep sea: curvy lipids that conform to an ideal shape under pressure. Read the article MACHINE LEARNING   Novel Architecture Makes Neural Networks More Understandable By STEVE NADIS By tapping into a decades-old mathematical principle, researchers are hoping that Kolmogorov-Arnold networks will facilitate scientific discovery. Read the article THE JOY OF WHY   Can Thermodynamics Go Quantum? Podcast co-hosted by STEVEN STROGATZ In this episode, the theoretical physicist Nicole Yunger Halpern talks to host Steven Strogatz about how physicists today are reinterpreting concepts such as work, energy and information for a quantum world. Listen to the podcast Read the transcript Follow Quanta Unsubscribe | About Quanta | My Bookmarks Privacy Policy | Terms | Contact Us   Copyright © 2024 Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent division of the Simons Foundation Simons Foundation 160 5th Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY 10010