MEC. Gisela Aguilar Martínez Encontrarse en un estado de estrés en tiempo actuales es normal, pero en tiempos de pandemia se concentran altas cantidades del mismo. Mantener la mente en calma es un proceso complicado, ya que hemos acostumbrado a nuestro cerebro a estar ubicados en el pasado o en el futuro mas no en […]
La constelación de satélites de Elon Musk, Starlink, amenaza con llenar de luces nuestros cielos y dejarnos sin noche y estrellas para siempre. ¿Cuánto de verdad hay en ello?
In 2020, the study of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was undoubtedly the most urgent priority. But there were also some major breakthroughs in other areas. We’d like to take a moment to recognize them. 1. This year, we learned that we had severely underestimated the human brain’s computing power. Researchers are coming to understand that even […]
This year, two teams of physicists made profound progress on ideas that could bring about the next revolution in physics. Another still has identified the source of a longstanding cosmic mystery. 1. Here’s an extremely brief version of the black hole information paradox: Stuff falls into a black hole. Over time — a long, long […]
This video is about how masks (whether surgical, or N95, or cloth) are counterintuitive and actually work much better epidemiologically than one might expect. Masks do double-duty, and the fraction of interactions with masks is much higher than the fraction of people wearing masks, so partially adopted, partially effective masks are able to reduce the […]
This video is a collaboration with Aatish Bhatia about how to see the COVID-19 tipping point – we present a better way to graph COVID-19 coronavirus cases using a logarithmic scale in «phase space» – plotting the growth rate against the cumulative cases, rather than either of these against time.
Quanta’s In Theory video series returns with an exploration of the mysterious mathematical pattern found throughout nature. Read about the new season debut here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-un… Directed and animated by Emily Driscoll for Quanta Magazine
Bill Gates outlines his vision for a global green revolution. He tells Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief, how renewable energy is merely the first step in combatting climate change.
On the ice, a machine-learning system often triumphed over high-level South Korean players. Artificial intelligence still needs to bridge the “sim-to-real” gap. Deep-learning techniques that are all the rage in AI log superlative performances in mastering cerebral games, including chess and Go, both of which can be played on a computer. But translating simulations to […]
If gravity were just a little stronger in our own three-dimensional world, the curvature of spacetime would be greater, and matter could more easily collapse in on itself. This arrangement would make stars, galaxies and planets extremely diminutive, compared with the ones in our reality. Not only would we have less space on Earth, but […]
