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In 1874, Georg Cantor published one of the most important papers in math’s 4,000-year history. Some ideas in it were stolen. On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, the second of a two-parter, host Samir Patel speaks with math editor Jordana Cepelewicz about the fate of Cantor, th ...  عرض المزيد

By simulating ecological networks with microbes, researchers revealed properties that may make natural communities susceptible to invasion.The story The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion first appeared on Quanta Magazine. 

On sait que le cerveau dépense une partie notable de l'énergie produite par le corps. Jusque là, ce phénomène demeurait assez mal expliqué. Une nouvelle recherche permet de mieux en comprendre les raisons.

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Disorders of the brain affect 1/5 of the population. Little to no research has been made to understand the molecular causes of psychiatric disorders within a decade, but James Temperton, author and Digital Editor for Wired Magazine, is optimistic.Today, Temperton shares the poten ...  عرض المزيد

In this episode, we talk with Jeff Hawkins—an entrepreneur and scientist, known for inventing some of the earliest handheld computers, the Palm and the Treo, who then turned his career to neuroscience and founded the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience in 2002 and Nume ...

The Mind V The Brain.It's one of the hardest problems in neuroscience. How do the chemical processes and electric signals produced by our brains result in the complex and varied experiences and sense of self that we might describe as our mind? Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined ...  عرض المزيد