IntroductionAt a conference in Japan a few years ago, David Dunsky attended a talk about gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space-time created...
IntroductionFor more than 40 years, Avi Wigderson has studied problems. But as a computational complexity theorist, he doesn’t necessarily care about the answers to...
IntroductionScatter three points in a plane, then measure the distances between every pair of them. In all likelihood, you’ll find three different distances. But...
IntroductionSolar eclipses were interpreted throughout much of history as bad news for the sovereign — an ominous sign for their personal health or that...
IntroductionPhysicists have deduced subtle hints that the mysterious “dark” energy that drives the universe to expand faster and faster may be slightly weakening with...
IntroductionIn the summer of 1991, the neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese was studying how movement is represented in the brain when he noticed something odd. He...
IntroductionThe renowned Polish piano duo Marek and Wacek didn’t use sheet music when playing live concerts. And yet onstage the pair appeared perfectly in...
IntroductionBirds flock. Locusts swarm. Fish school. Within assemblies of organisms that seem as though they could get chaotic, order somehow emerges. The collective behaviors...
IntroductionImagine you’re on a quest to understand the very nature of computation. You’re deep in the wilderness, far from any paths, and inscrutable messages...
IntroductionIn Georgia’s 2020 gubernatorial election, some voters in Atlanta waited over 10 hours to cast a ballot. One reason for the long lines was...
IntroductionAt the end of last year, the tech giant IBM announced what might sound like a milestone in quantum computing: the first-ever chip, called...
