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Math and Science News from Quanta Magazine View this email in your browser If you love reading Quanta half as much as we love to make it, please vote for us for a Webby Award for best science website! It's a tight race, and every vote counts. Voting ends on Thursday 4/17 at midnight ET. Thank you, Samir Patel Editor in Chief EVOLUTION | ALL TOPICS   Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals By YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple times. Read the article QUANTUM PHYSICS   'Paraparticles' Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle By SHALMA WEGSMAN A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be created in exotic materials. Read the article Q&A   Where Does Meaning Live in a Sentence? Math Might Tell Us. By JOSEPH HOWLETT The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language. Read the article QUANTA SCIENCE PODCAST   Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound Podcast by SUSAN VALOT Story by CHARLIE WOOD Three new species of superconductivity were spotted this year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to form a frictionless quantum soup. Listen (Apple) | Listen (Spotify) Read the article Follow Quanta Unsubscribe | About Quanta | My Bookmarks Privacy Policy | Terms | Contact Us   Copyright © 2025 Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent division of the Simons Foundation Simons Foundation 160 5th Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY 10010