The Quantastic Journal

But Why Do They Look So Cool?

Although very tiny and inconspicuous, nanomaterials may play a great part in future technological development — they have a great role…

The unorthodox way one bacterium organizes its genome blurs the line between “essential” chromosomes and “accessory” plasmids.

Still struggling in 2024

How Carl Jung Gave us a Theory of Everything that could unite Humanity

Rewriting Earth’s Story, One Step at a Time

Living with it firsthand, I can tell you why that is true.

There are a lot of myths surrounding gene editing, and some of them are straight out of a science fiction book.

I feel much about synthetic biology as I do AI: I don’t really understand it from a technical point of view, but I sure am excited about…

When Past Trends Betray the Future

There’s more beauty in them than you think

This simple sieve algorithm has a potential to revolutionise Machine Learning but it could also run on retro, 8-bit computers.

My mindset has changed and everything else has followed

The Size of Latin American Nations

More than sixty years ago, the British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow delivered the Rede Lecture (University of Cambridge) on “The Two…

If we were to offer you artificial wisdom, would you want it? My guess would be probably not. Why is that?

The distress vocalizations of infants are an excellent strategy for alerting conspecifics even at long distances, but these “frequencies”…

“Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.” Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn

Apple is going to launch its next-generation iPhone 16 series into the market, with a wide variety of updates to its software and hardware…

Recent studies shed new light on the practice of cannibalism in ancient Paleolithic populations. It is not a question of eating meat out of…

Researchers Are Injecting Live Rhino Horns With Radioactive Material

An Introduction to Scientific Realism and Anti-Realism.

Education is at a critical juncture and needs to draw leaders from a broader pool, including instructional designers

Go on a journey through the elegant world of relational algebra, revealing how its fundamental operations explain SQL queries.