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Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings | Quanta Magazine (opens the original)
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I get out of bed. I walk through the dimly lit hallway, thinking of what’s in my fridge and what I should have for breakfast. With no real effort, I’ve navigated my environment, accessed my memory, and assessed the energetic state of my body, all in the space of a few seconds. How is the brain able to do this? Partly by harnessing electricity. The brain spends about half of its energetic resources maintaining the electrochemical gradients that keep neurons poised and ready to fire at a moment’s
Mathematicians Harness Randomness To Crack a 55-Year-Old Conjecture (opens the original)
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The late Ronald Graham wore two hats. He was a renowned mathematician, at one time president of the American Mathematical Society. He was also a serious juggler, and president of the International Jugglers’ Association. “He loved tricks,” said Fan Chung, a mathematician at the University of California, San Diego, who was married to Graham. “You know, spinning a ball, spinning a coat hanger… Source
Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality? | Quanta Magazine (opens the original)
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In my first months as a physics journalist nearly a decade ago, I kept running into an inscrutable string of characters: AdS/CFT. Thoroughly intimidated, I decided to just ignore it. But I couldn’t keep my head in the sand for long. I soon learned that those characters are shorthand for a surprising connection between the seemingly inharmonious worlds of gravity and quantum mechanics. And even more bizarrely, this “anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory” correspondence suggests that gravity elimi
Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike (opens the original)
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Two decades ago, scientists seemed on the verge of understanding biology in a new, quantum way. Life unfolds over an incomprehensible span of scales, from our planet-enveloping biosphere at one end, to individual cell-building biomolecules at the other. Even at its most microscopic, though, biology doesn’t really reach down to the quantum realm, in which particles act like waves… Source
How Virus-like ‘Jumping Genes’ Became Our Partners in Evolution (opens the original)
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You might imagine that the DNA in your cells has a simple history. Even though it’s been recombined in every generation through sex and gained the occasional mutation, on the whole the genome has been stable and has been passed down reliably from your ancestors. But that’s not the entire story. Nearly half of your genome is a wild drama: mobile, repetitive, disruptive, even viral. Source
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