The ocean teems with networks of interconnected bacteria(quantamagazine.org)

118 points by abe94 1 year ago | 18 comments

A mutation turned ants into parasites in one generation(quantamagazine.org)

137 points by theafh 3 years ago | 26 comments

How many microbes does it take to make you sick?(quantamagazine.org)

115 points by meany 3 years ago | 90 comments

'Turbocharged' Mitochondria Power Birds' Epic Migratory Journeys(quantamagazine.org)

72 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 16 comments

'Turbocharged' Mitochondria Power Birds' Epic Migratory Journeys(quantamagazine.org)

89 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 69 comments

How the human brain contends with the strangeness of zero(quantamagazine.org)

49 points by apollinaire 2 years ago | 74 comments

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike(quantamagazine.org)

112 points by pseudolus 1 month ago | 49 comments

Quanta Magazine article arguing that while biology may not rely on quantum effects, the mathematics describing biological systems resembles quantum math.

Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds(science.org)

402 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 350 comments

Science magazine news article reporting an analysis finding that sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake scientific papers.

Cold-blooded software(dubroy.com)

499 points by arbesman 2 years ago | 198 comments

Patrick Dubroy's blog essay using cold-blooded animals as a metaphor for software that can sit untouched for long periods and still work when revived.