What is consciousness? What are the challenges of studying it scientifically? Can we ‘dissolve’ them? @anilseth.bsky.social gives us some answers in this new #INMINDS interview for @cienciacog.bsky.social about *problems of consciousness (and how to handle them)*! www.cienciacognitiva.org?p=2549

And if conclusions are more your thing than introductions 😉, the beginning of that is here (also audio and text):
www.thetransmitter.org/community/el...

What if gravity isn’t a pull from mass, but a push from entropy? @georgemusser.com reports on the latest version of an old idea.

www.quantamagazine.org/is-gravity-j...

At the microscopic scale, time is reversible. But when you zoom out, there is no going back. Why is this true?
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“Inside of black holes, I am positive there is some notion of singularity.” —Netta Engelhardt, physicist www.quantamagazine.org/singularitie...

Memories are made of molecules.

A new proof upends a major assumption about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

Everything is not the same through the looking glass. The behavior of many familiar objects, from molecules to elementary particles, depends on which mirror-image version we interact with.

The Mars plans of @elonmusk are not just illusory, they are dangerous. My new piece on why.

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A new discovery (not published in a journal yet) of what might be an organism that is half-virus, half prokaryote.

whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/05/14/a...

In your brain, 86 billion neurons chitchat with one another in complex networks. Neurons can carry meaning in binary code — whether they fire or not — and also in analog, in a symphony of signals with variable patterns, strengths and frequencies.

Two new papers are reopening the case of a physics mystery that was believed to be solved decades ago.

A year ago today we lost the wonderful philosopher Daniel Dennett. He is still very greatly missed. Here's some reflections I wrote at time, in @nautil.us nautil.us/i-never-stop...

Every day, cells self-terminate in countless organisms. Research shows that this programmed cell death is ancient. When and why did it evolve?

Physicists suspect that spinning neutron stars, known as pulsars, resemble something of a cosmic baked ziti: solid outer crust, with an interior of pressurized neutrons that can bear an uncanny resemblance to gnocchi, spaghetti, and lasagna. www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-s...

Just to elaborate, most conventional physical systems have a unique lowest-energy or highest-entropy state that, absent external intervention, they will settle to and stay there. Time crystals are meant to be systems where that’s not true, and the lowest-energy state oscillates forever.

Explore or revisit the series here: www.quantamagazine.org/the-unraveli...

You matter.

Unless you multiply yourself by the speed of light squared.

Then you Energy.