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Math and Science News from Quanta Magazine View this email in your browser FRACTALS | ALL TOPICS   Teen Mathematicians Tie Knots Through a Mind-Blowing Fractal By GREGORY BARBER Three high schoolers and their mentor revisited a century-old theorem to prove that all knots can be found in a fractal called the Menger sponge. Read the article EXPLAINER   What Is Distributed Computing? By MAX G. LEVY Our computers can get a lot more done when they share the load with other machines. Read the article QUANTA SCIENCE PODCAST   What Could Explain the Gallium Anomaly? Story by JONATHAN O'CALLAGHAN Podcast hosted by SUSAN VALOT An old Soviet experiment points to the possibility of a new fundamental particle. Listen to the podcast Read the article 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