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It’s been difficult to find important questions that quantum computers can answer faster than classical machines, but a new ...

Webb Wright is a journalist based in Brooklyn, New York, who writes about technology and the mind. He’s an alumnus of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a former Ferriss – ...

Last spring, a team of nearly 1,000 cosmologists announced that dark energy — the enigmatic agent propelling the universe to swell in size at an ever-increasing rate — might be slackening. The ...

Cells in our bodies are constantly dying — and these countless tiny deaths are essential to human health and multicellular life itself. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with cellular ...

Momentum for new ideas in Alzheimer’s research joined advances in neuroscience, developmental biology and origin-of-life studies to make 2022 a memorable year of biological insights. The Quanta ...