QUANTUM PHYSICS | ALL TOPICS

'It's a Mess': A Brain-Bending Trip to Quantum Theory's 100th Birthday Party

By CHARLIE WOOD

Hundreds of physicists (and a few journalists) journeyed to Helgoland, the birthplace of quantum mechanics, and grappled with what they have and haven't learned about reality over the last century.

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EARTH SCIENCE

Earth's Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth's Surface

By ROBIN GEORGE ANDREWS

Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet's center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size entities anchored to the core-mantle boundary might be involved.

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GRAPH THEORY

New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes

By BEN BRUBAKER

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks.

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THE QUANTA PODCAST

How Smell Guides Our Inner World

Podcast hosted by SAMIR PATEL
With YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU

How do scent molecules translate into a neural language that triggers emotions and memories?

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COMPLEX SYSTEMS | YOUTUBE CHANNEL

Is Information a Fundamental Force of Our Universe?

Video by CHRISTOPHER W. YOUNG
Story by PHILLIP BALL

Researchers Robert Hazen and Michael Wong have put forward a bold new law of nature — one that could explain how everything in the universe evolves, from atoms, minerals and stars to living cells, ecosystems and even human civilization.

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