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A New Law to Describe Quantum Computing’s Rise?
Neven’s law states that quantum computers are improving at a “doubly exponential” rate. If it holds, quantum supremacy is around the corner.
Philosophers Debate New ‘Sonic Black Hole’ Discovery
Opinions differ about what recent measurements of a sound-trapping fluid reveal about light-trapping black holes.
How Randomness Can Make Math Easier
Randomness would seem to make a mathematical statement harder to prove. In fact, it often does the opposite.
It Takes a Village to Raise a Meerkat
What the rare cooperative species tells us about ourselves.
Six Degrees of Separation at Burning Man
What our experiment in the desert taught us about social networks and human cooperation.
The Dr. Strange of the American Revolution
Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration, became one of the most preeminent physician-scientists alive, founding American psychiatry.
We Need Insects More Than They Need Us
Inside the world of plastic-eating worms, dung-rolling beetles, and agricultural ants..
The Paleo-Bell River: North America’s Vanished Amazon
North America’s modern rivers came from an extensive system larger than today’s Amazon.
