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A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up(quantamagazine.org)
629 points by robinhouston | 154 comments
Quanta Magazine article about mathematicians constructing a tetrahedron that is stable on only one face, confirming a decades-old conjecture.
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For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides(quantamagazine.org)
892 points by defrost | 280 comments
Quanta Magazine article on scientists building a synthetic cell from nonliving materials that can grow and divide, a step toward creating life in the lab.
A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up(quantamagazine.org)
629 points by robinhouston | 154 comments
Quanta Magazine article about mathematicians constructing a tetrahedron that is stable on only one face, confirming a decades-old conjecture.
A New Experiment Meta-Strategy(chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
26 points by surprisetalk | 1 comments
A Substack post by an amateur physicist describing a new strategy for doing home experiments after reorganizing a messy lab to fit limited free evenings.
Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike(quantamagazine.org)
112 points by pseudolus | 49 comments
Quanta Magazine article arguing that while biology may not rely on quantum effects, the mathematics describing biological systems resembles quantum math.
AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)
524 points by rzk | 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.
Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction(nobelprize.org)
510 points by mitchbob | 287 comments
Official Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences press release announcing the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for computational protein design and protein structure prediction.