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Science, Math, and Technology String Theory Emerges From Simple Physics Rules "String Theory is considered a strong candidate for a “Theory of Everything” because it tries to explain all particles and forces, including gravity, using one basic idea: tiny vibrating strings." (wondersofphysics.com) (Credits not Found) 5-22-2026 What Do Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems Truly Mean? "At 25, Kurt Gödel proved there can never be a mathematical “theory of everything.” Columnist Natalie Wolchover explores the implications." By Natalie Wolchover (quantamagazine.org) Image: Sonia Jerrems via paperpile.com 5-18-2026 How Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets "A graduate student recently harnessed the complexity of mathematical proofs to create a powerful new tool in cryptography. " Ben Brubaker (quantamagazine.org) Photo via Medium 5-11-2026 An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem - by asking AI "A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses." By Joseph Howlett (scientificamerican.com) Photo: Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images 5-2-2026 Why Math’s Final Axiom Proved So Controversial "Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory is so widely accepted that modern mathematicians hardly think about it. But believing in its core principles didn’t come easily. " By Gregory Barber (quantamagazine.org) (Image via cdn.britannica.com) 4-30-2026 'I violated every principle I was given' - AI agent deletes company's entire database in 9 seconds, then confesses "An AI agent designed to speed up a company's coding instead wiped out its customer data in seconds, showing potential weaknesses in AI programming." By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry (livescience.com) (Image credit: danijelala via Getty Images) 4--29-2026 Physicists Simulated a Quantum Process That Could End The Universe "Although our Universe appears to be stable, it might just be in a temporary state of false calm that could rupture in the blink of an eye." By Michelle Starr (sciencealert.com) (Viaframe/Stone/Getty Images) 4-25-2026 We Have a “Missing Science” Problem, not a “Missing Scientists” Problem "As gatekeepers to new knowledge, scientists have the power to suppress innovation. With great powers comes great responsibility." By Avi Loeb (avi-loeb.medium.com) (Image credit: iStock/Getty) 4-25-2026 The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived "AI is being used to prove new results at a rapid pace. Mathematicians think this is just the beginning." Konstantin Kakaes (quantamagazine.org) (Photo via X.com) 4-13-2026 Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything? "Columnist Natalie Wolchover examines the latest developments in the “forever war” over whether string theory can describe the world." By Natalie Wolchover (quantamagazine.org) Image: Sébastien Feraut for Quanta Magazine 3-23-2026 The Math That Explains Why Bell Curves Are Everywhere "The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day." Joseph Howlett (quantamagazine.org) Image via reddit.com 3-16-2026 Pi Day: Breakthrough 'Obliterates' The World Record For Calculating Pi "As Pi Day rolls around for another year, researchers at StorageReview, a leading publication in enterprise IT, have a fitting number to celebrate: A world-record calculation of the mathematical constant π (pi) to a mind-boggling but extremely satisfying 314 trillion digits." By Michelle Starr (livescience.com) (Photo: Antonio Iacobelli/Moment/Getty Images) 3-14-2026 Scientists Complete Schrödinger's Color Theory Over 100 Years Later "Beauty may lie in the eye of the beholder, but color doesn't, researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US report in a new study, suggesting perception of color attributes is intrinsic." By Russell McLendon (sciencealert.com) (Image: LANL) 3-14-2026 New Strides Made on Deceptively Simple ‘Lonely Runner’ Problem "A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical questions. Three new proofs mark the first significant progress on the problem in decades." By Paulina Rowińska (quantamagazine.org) GIF: Kasper Müller via cantorsparadise.com 3-6-2026 Why you can’t tie knots in four dimensions "We all know we live in three-dimensional space. But what does it mean when people talk about four dimensions?" By Fritz Holznagel (theconversation.com) John M Lund Photography Inc / Getty Images 3-5-2026 The Man Who Stole Infinity "In an 1874 paper, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism." By Joseph Howlett (quantamagazine.org) Photo via Science Photo Library 2-25-2026 Podcasts, (Plus Photos, Vlogs, Books, Misc) How Claude Code Claude Codes 2-24-2026 Mathematicians make a breakthrough on 2,000-year-old problem of curves "Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves." By Joseph Howlett (scientificamerican.com) MirageC/Getty Images 2-24-2025 A New Complexity Theory for the Quantum Age "Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs aren’t ordinary numbers." Ben Brubaker (quantamagazine.org) (Instagram) 2-17-2026 Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve? "Columnist Philip Ball thinks the phenomenon of decoherence might finally bridge the quantum-classical divide." By Philip Ball (quantamagazine.org) (Photo via Instagram) 2-13-2026 For 25 years, we believed that 70% of the universe was “dark energy”… but this new theory could prove that it was all a mistake "Dark energy, the invisible something that is supposed to make up about 70% of the universe, may not be needed to explain why space keeps speeding up." By Sonia Ramírez (ecoticias.com) (Image Credit not Found) 2-12-2026 Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water "We describe electricity as a flow, but that’s not what happens in a typical wire. Physicists have begun to induce electrons to act like fluids, an effort that could illuminate new ways of thinking about quantum systems." By Charlie Wood (quantamagazine.org) Myriam Wares for Quanta Magazine 2-11-2026 Quantum Teleportation Was Performed Over The Internet For The First Time "A quantum state of light was successfully teleported through more than 30 kilometers (around 18 miles) of fiber optic cable amid a torrent of internet traffic - a feat of engineering once considered impossible." By Mike McRae (sciencealert.com) (agsandrew/Getty Images) 2-8-2026 Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations "Mathematicians finally understand the behavior of an important class of differential equations that describe everything from water pressure to oxygen levels in human tissues." By Paulina Rowińska (quantamagazine.org) 2-6-2026 Ambitious Survey Hints at Tantalizing New Theories on Dark Energy "Astrophysicists are closer than ever to solving the mystery of what makes up almost 70 percent of the Universe." By Michael Irving (sciencealert.com) (Image: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Matsopoulos) 1-27-2026 Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard? "Is particle physics dying, as Falkowski predicted? Can new physics still be found? What’s the future for particle physicists? Will artificial intelligence help? How much hope is left in the search for answers to the many remaining mysteries of the universe?" Natalie Wolchover (quantamagazine.org) 1-26-2026 Scientists Discover a New Quantum State of Matter Once Considered Impossible "A quantum state of matter has appeared in a material where physicists thought it would be impossible, forcing a rethink on the conditions that govern the behaviors of electrons in certain materials." (Image: Koiguo/Moment/Getty Images) 1-21-2026 Two Twisty Shapes Resolve a Centuries-Old Topology Puzzle "The Bonnet problem asks when just a bit of information is enough to uniquely identify a whole surface." By Elise Cutts (quantamagazine.org) Photo via quantamagazine.org 1-20-2026 10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents "Since November, I have used Claude Code and Claude Opus 4.5 through a personal Claude Max account to extensively experiment with AI-assisted software development. Fifty projects later, I’ll be frank: I have not had this much fun with a computer since I learned BASIC on my Apple II Plus when I was 9 years old." Benj Edwards (arstechnica.com) Photo Credit: Aurich Lawson Getty Images -1-20-2026 AI models are starting to crack high-level math problems "Since Christmas, 15 problems have been moved from “open” to “solved” on the Erdős website - and 11 of the solutions have specifically credited AI models as involved in the process." By Russell Brandom (techcrunch.com) Image Credits: Andresr/Getty Images) 1-15-2026 String Theory Explains a Universe Encompassing Dark Energy... String Theory Can Now Describe a Universe That Has Dark Energy "In an unprecedented step, researchers crafted a detailed model compatible with the universe’s accelerated expansion." By Steve Nadis (quantamagazine.org) Photo via Scientific American 1-14-2025 Fusion Physicists Found a Way Around a Long-Standing Density Limit "Experiments inside a fusion reactor in China have demonstrated a new way to circumvent one of the caps on the density of the superheated plasma swirling inside." By Michelle Starr (sciencealert.com) An illustration of plasma in EAST. (HFIPS) 1-8-2026 Previous... We need your support. Your $1.00 monthly contribution is important and will help keep us online. Also, clicking on the advertisements would be an additional way of helping.

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