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How CRISPR Could Eradicate HIV From Human DNA

How CRISPR Could Eradicate HIV From Human DNA

A revolutionary gene-editing tool that has great potential to treat gene-related diseases, viral infections inclusive.—Could in this be the…
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Ifeoma Ikechukwu, Pharm.D
Submission Guidelines for the Quantastic Journal

Submission Guidelines for the Quantastic Journal

Join the Quantastic Writers’ Circle and Submit Your Story!
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Sam Vaseghi
How Artificial Food Dyes Shaped What We Eat, and What We’re Learning Now About Their Safety

How Artificial Food Dyes Shaped What We Eat, and What We’re Learnin...

When it comes to food, what you see is not always what you get.
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René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
How a Square Led to Infinity: From Pythagoras to Ramanujan

How a Square Led to Infinity: From Pythagoras to Ramanujan

The Pythagorean spark: A triangle that changed everything
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AnubhavX
Will AI Ever Think Like Einstein or Create Like Picasso?—Imagination is All You need

Will AI Ever Think Like Einstein or Create Like Picasso?—Imaginatio...

“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.”—Thomas A. Edison
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Rick Mammone
Unitary versus Non-Unitary Isometric Time Evolution—with QuTiP Examples

Unitary versus Non-Unitary Isometric Time Evolution—with QuTiP Examples

Beautifully, in the unitarity, past and future are connected, so you can freely go back and forth during the time evolution; unfortunately…
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Anastasiya Khromova, Dr. rer. nat. 🇺🇦
The Learning Trap: Breaking Free from Knowledge Addiction

The Learning Trap: Breaking Free from Knowledge Addiction

Endless learning can feel productive but keeps you from making real progress
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The Ordinary Scientist
Tokens Compete: Evolutionary Pressure Within LLM Generation

Tokens Compete: Evolutionary Pressure Within LLM Generation

You might think LLMs just predict the next token, but these tokens don’t just emerge — they compete, mutate, and survive.
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Rob Manson
How Peer Review Became Science’s Most Dangerous Illusion

How Peer Review Became Science’s Most Dangerous Illusion

The lie detector has been lying all along
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Ricky Lanusse
When Medicine Meets Humanity: Navigating the Ethics of Enslaved Bodies as Medical Specimens and…

When Medicine Meets Humanity: Navigating the Ethics of Enslaved Bodies as Medical Specimens and…

The ethical crossroads of medicine, museums, and the legacy of enslaved bodies
Go to the profile of René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
New Class of Life: The Immortal “Aeonophiles”

New Class of Life: The Immortal “Aeonophiles”

Ultra-slow-growing microorganisms can live for potentially millions of years
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Kevin Blake, PhD
Inference As Interference: How LLMs Collide Semantic Waves To Create Meaning

Inference As Interference: How LLMs Collide Semantic Waves To Create Meaning

Most people think Large Language Model (LLM) Inference is just multiplying weights. But at each layer in a model we can see that an…
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Rob Manson
Quantum Keys to Unbreakable Security—The Quantum Revolution Will Also Redefine Privacy

Quantum Keys to Unbreakable Security—The Quantum Revolution Will Also Redefine Privacy

The example of BB84—One of the most famous quantum key distribution protocols.
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Paolo Molignini, PhD
Scientists, You’re Interesting! And the Public Needs to Hear From You

Scientists, You’re Interesting! And the Public Needs to Hear From You

How using narrative techniques such as plot, setting, and theme can spark interest in research
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Elaine Medline
The Infinite Faces of Infinity

The Infinite Faces of Infinity

Some infinities are bigger than others—and that’s terrifying.
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Chaipat Tira
The Decline of Genius: Where Did All the World-Changers Go?

The Decline of Genius: Where Did All the World-Changers Go?

We didn’t just stop making Einsteins — we built a system designed to make sure they never showed up
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Ricky Lanusse
Understanding Terrain Theory: A Different Way of Looking at Disease

Understanding Terrain Theory: A Different Way of Looking at Disease

Terrain theory sounds reasonable to the uninitiated. But it alone cannot explain why people exposed to germs develop specific diseases, or…
Go to the profile of René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
Recurrence Without Memory: The Hidden Loop Inside Transformer Inference

Recurrence Without Memory: The Hidden Loop Inside Transformer Inference

Meaning comes from “flowing & curving through a space” that has already been bent by everything that came before.
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Rob Manson
Processed Foods: Friend, Foe, or Just Complicated?

Processed Foods: Friend, Foe, or Just Complicated?

A public health breakdown for anyone who’s ever bought canned beans or instant noodles.
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René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
The Ultimate 2025 Guide to Quantum Computing Trailblazers

The Ultimate 2025 Guide to Quantum Computing Trailblazers

All You Need to Know About the Current Status of One of the Most Promising Technologies out There
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Paolo Molignini, PhD
Science Was Broken — And Bayesian Reasoning Saved It

Science Was Broken — And Bayesian Reasoning Saved It

the paradox that changed how we think about doing science
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Chaipat Tira
Our Emotional Resonance with AIs Might Be the Way to Improving Their Socialization Skills

Our Emotional Resonance with AIs Might Be the Way to Improving Their Socialization Skills

The future of harmonizing with AIs through emotional resonance should make the world a more comfortable and productive place.
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Rick Mammone
What is Category Theory to Cognitive Psychology of Science?

What is Category Theory to Cognitive Psychology of Science?

How do scientists make discoveries? A unifying mathematical language may give insights to the structure of scientific reasoning.
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Michael Ng
Mathematics’ Haunted House of Shadows: How Higher Dimensions Project into the Worlds We Measure

Mathematics’ Haunted House of Shadows: How Higher Dimensions Project into the Worlds We Measure

From quasicrystals, hyper-Catalans, and transcendental numbers to calculus, category theory, and Cantor’s cardinals, lower-dimensional data…
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Sam Vaseghi
The Vitamin K Shot: Why We Recommend It for Every Newborn Baby

The Vitamin K Shot: Why We Recommend It for Every Newborn Baby

It’s not a vaccine. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s a life-saving vitamin your baby needs.
Go to the profile of René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
We Don’t Have an Energy Supply Problem — We’re Just Burning It Like Idiots

We Don’t Have an Energy Supply Problem — We’re Just Burning It Like Idiots

This isn’t about replacing fossil fuels. It’s about using energy that actually works.
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Ricky Lanusse
The Theory and Math on Homeopathy Doesn’t Add Up

The Theory and Math on Homeopathy Doesn’t Add Up

Let’s do the math together and understand the beliefs around homeopathy to make it clear why homeopathy isn’t a viable medicine.
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René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
The Mathematical Mind: How Euclidean Geometry Lives on the Riemannian Manifold of Our Brain

The Mathematical Mind: How Euclidean Geometry Lives on the Riemannian Manifold of Our Brain

The mathematical mind, at least in some of its fundamental abstractions, is a mental representation of the brain’s inherent hardwired…
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Sam Vaseghi
Inside a Language Model’s Mind: Curved Inference as a New “AI Interpretability” Paradigm

Inside a Language Model’s Mind: Curved Inference as a New “AI Interpretability” Paradigm

New Evidence of the Shape of Thought
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Rob Manson
One Teaspoon, One Mistake — Infant Botulism Is Rare but Deadly, and Entirely Preventable

One Teaspoon, One Mistake — Infant Botulism Is Rare but Deadly, and Entirely Preventable

How a spoonful of honey nearly killed my nephew—here’s what every parent needs to know.
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Dr. Hatem El-Nagar
The Age of the Earth and La Tour Eiffel

The Age of the Earth and La Tour Eiffel

If the Eiffel Tower were to represent the history of life on Earth, how far down would the history of Homo sapiens begin?
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Kevin Blake, PhD
Understanding Autism: A Journey Through History, Science, and Society

Understanding Autism: A Journey Through History, Science, and Society

What the rising autism prevalence rates tell us about how our understanding and acceptance of autism.
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René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
The Evidence for Functionalism—On Intelligence, Consciousness, and The End of Metaphysical Excuses

The Evidence for Functionalism—On Intelligence, Consciousness, and The End of Metaphysical Excuses

We don’t need ghosts to explain minds, we need only to understand how they function and what they do.
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Rob Manson
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