This “living crystal” is a clump of rotating, jiggling starfish embryos in the lab of the biophysicist Nikta Fakhri. It embodies a state of matter known as an odd material that may have previously unknown biological functions. https://www.quantamagazine.org/starfish-whisperer-develops-a-physical-language-of-life-20230111/ | Quanta Magazine

Quantum chromodynamics predicts that the proton is, at high resolution, a dandelion-like cloud made up almost entirely of force-carrying particles called gluons. https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-proton-the-most-complicated-thing-imaginable-20221019/ | Quanta Magazine

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3.2K views · 118 reactions | In a recent paper with echoes of Alan Turing, computer scientists have proven that entangled quantum computers can theoretically be used to verify answers to an incredibly vast set of problems. The work has unleashed a cascade of consequences in quantum mechanics and pure mathematics. www.quantamagazine.org/landmark-computer-science-proof-cascades-through-physics-and-math-20200304/ | Quanta Magazine | Facebook

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1.2K views · 44 reactions | ICYMI: Hod Lipson is taking baby steps toward an understanding consciousness by studying the ways a robot can learn to “self-model,” or gain an understanding of its body and its environment. https://www.quantamagazine.org/hod-lipson-is-building-self-aware-robots-20190711/ | Quanta Magazine | Facebook