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

If you understand basic arithmetic, you can make it to an exoplanet. Try out Hyperjumps!, Quanta’s first interactive math puzzle: https://hyperjumps.quantamagazine.org/ | Quanta Magazine

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

1K views · 59 reactions | Most of the standard matter particles in the universe are invisible to us. Nonetheless, we can detect them in particle colliders and, in some cases, we’ve even been able to take photographs of the tracks they leave behind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unl1jXFnzgo | Quanta Magazine | Facebook