NEUROSCIENCE | ALL TOPICS

How Much Energy Does It Take To Think?

By CONOR FEEHLY

Studies of neural metabolism reveal our brain's effort to keep us alive and the evolutionary constraints that sculpted our most complex organ.

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NUMBER THEORY

The Core of Fermat's Last Theorem Just Got Superpowered

By JOSEPH HOWLETT

By extending the scope of the key insight behind Fermat's Last Theorem, four mathematicians have made great strides toward building a "grand unified theory" of math.

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QUANTUM PHYSICS

First Map Made of a Solid's Secret Quantum Geometry

By SHALMA WEGSMAN

Physicists recently mapped the hidden shape that underlies the quantum behaviors of a crystal, using a new method that's expected to become ubiquitous.

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THE QUANTA PODCAST

For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time
With SAMIR PATEL

and BEN BRUBAKER

A new proof upends a major assumption about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

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