open science – Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org Illuminating science Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:10:47 -0400 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 Neuroscience Readies for a Showdown Over Consciousness Ideas https://www.quantamagazine.org/neuroscience-readies-for-a-showdown-over-consciousness-ideas-20190306/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/neuroscience-readies-for-a-showdown-over-consciousness-ideas-20190306/#respond Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:50:43 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=69468 The post Neuroscience Readies for a Showdown Over Consciousness Ideas first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> Some problems in science are so hard, we don’t really know what meaningful questions to ask about them — or whether they are even truly solvable by science. Consciousness is one of those: Some researchers think it is an illusion; others say it pervades everything. Some hope to see it reduced to the underlying biology of neurons firing; others say that it is an irreducibly holistic phenomenon.

Source

]]> https://www.quantamagazine.org/neuroscience-readies-for-a-showdown-over-consciousness-ideas-20190306/feed/ 0 Together and Alone, Closing the Prime Gap https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-team-up-on-twin-primes-conjecture-20131119/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-team-up-on-twin-primes-conjecture-20131119/#comments Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:15:58 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=7921 The post Together and Alone, Closing the Prime Gap first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> On May 13, an obscure mathematician — one whose talents had gone so unrecognized that he had worked at a Subway restaurant to make ends meet — garnered worldwide attention and accolades from the mathematics community for settling a long-standing open question about prime numbers, those numbers divisible by only one and themselves. Yitang Zhang, a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire...

Source

]]> https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-team-up-on-twin-primes-conjecture-20131119/feed/ 23 Imagining Data Without Division https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-big-science-imagining-data-without-division-20130930/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-big-science-imagining-data-without-division-20130930/#comments Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:39:21 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=6425 The post Imagining Data Without Division first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> Seven years ago, when David Schimel was asked to design an ambitious data project called the National Ecological Observatory Network, it was little more than a National Science Foundation grant. There was no formal organization, no employees, no detailed science plan. Emboldened by advances in remote sensing, data storage and computing power, NEON sought answers to the biggest question in ecology...

Source

]]> https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-big-science-imagining-data-without-division-20130930/feed/ 2