Mike Wright, who since the early 70’s has been recording scientific talks, well before anyone was doing anything like that, resulting in 100,000 hours of recordings. While a substantial portion is now digitised, some work still needs doing to reach the finishing line. buff.ly/bTScLaK

FQxI and the Paradox Science Institute supported the recent school in quantum biology in Paraty, Brazil. FQxI's $53,000 essay competition on the topic of quantum biology asks: How Quantum is Life? Enter before 29 October 2025 for your chance to win! NEWS: qspace.fqxi.org/news/165309/...

(1/5) The Black Spatula project is just starting out, with a community of contributors all exploring different ways that AI might be brought to bear on error checking. "It's still in the experimental phase, with multiple volunteers collaborating to try out different approaches," says Steve Newman.

Johann du Buisson, Jannik Ehrich, mleighton.bsky.social, davidasivak.bsky.social, and John Bechhoefer introduce a one-coordinate test that infers heat flow to flag “demonic” operation. In kinesin simulations tuned to experiments, the motor grows more demon-like as active fluctuations rise.

📢 Good news: We’ve extended the deadline for FQxI’s How Quantum is Life? essay competition. You now have until October 29, 2025 to submit your entry. Remember, there's a $53,000 prize pot up for grabs! All information here qspace.fqxi.org/competitions...

FQxI is seeking an Academic Managing Editor for a new project, the Foundational Review Series. Remote (Global applicants welcome) Full-Time (will consider alternative working arrangements for the ideal candidate) ~$70,000 – $100,000 based on experience fqxi.org/academic-man...

Sara Walker and Paul Davies on the physics of life. Our $53,000 quantum biology essay contest asks: How Quantum is Life? qspace.fqxi.org/competitions...

The evidence is building that life itself is quantum mechanical. Enter FQxI's $53,000 Essay Competition: How Quantum is Life? DEADLINE: 29 September, 2025 qspace.fqxi.org/competitions...

The "Living Reviews" concept featured by the FQxI — Started as unique #OpenAccess journals 20+ years ago at the @maxplanck.de and now published by @springernature.com. Thanks to its authors and editors, Living Reviews are used hundreds of thousands times each year by researchers and students!

(Thread) In quantum mechanics, a system can be in two states at once, until someone looks. But what happens if there’s another “someone” — an observer inside the system. The outer and inner observers will have contradictory views of the situation. @georgemusser.com — qspace.fqxi.org/articles/266...

Enhanced versions of David Tong's lecture notes are being released as books by Cambridge University Press, with the first four now on sale, covering Classical Mechanics, Electromagnetism, Quantum Mechanics, and Fluid Mechanics.

Back in 2015, Sylvia Wenmackers won FQxI's Trick or Truth competition with 'Children of the Cosmos'. PAST WINNERS: qspace.fqxi.org/competitions...

SWIPE ➡️ Living Reviews: The Wikipedia of Science Full article: qspace.fqxi.org/articles/279... #Science #Metascience #Articles #PeerReview

Neuroscientists are testing the idea that what we see when we perceive the world is ultimately an internal projection. FULL ARTICLE: qspace.fqxi.org/articles/258...

In a recent Substack post, FQxI's Jonathan Oppenheim discusses how far #LLMS have progressed. @postquantum.bsky.social says "their answers often look very convincing on the surface until you go through them more carefully". DISCUSS: forums.fqxi.org/d/4283-how-g...

Catalina Curceanu explains electron tunneling and smell at XPANSE. Some researchers think receptors might use this quantum effect. The idea is still being tested. We'd love to hear your ideas! FQxI’s $53,000 Essay Competiton on Quantum Biology: qspace.fqxi.org/competitions...

🔗 Read her essay and other other past winners' qspace.fqxi.org/competitions... ✍️ Got an idea of your own? Enter this year’s contest: How Quantum is Life? 📅 Deadline: Sept 29, 2025 RULES FOR ENTRIES qspace.fqxi.org/competitions...

Could the controversial idea of cold fusion be about to make a return? A new experiment inspired by this once-promising idea aims to improve rates of nuclear fusion.

A new review by Josu C. Aurrekoetxea, Katy Clough and Eugene A. Lim shows when cosmology needs numerical relativity, spanning the universe’s history from before the Big Bang through inflation, reheating, phase transitions, and late-time structures. qspace.fqxi.org/news/165307/...

Gerard ’t Hooft is now uneasy about how the idea is used. “People run away doing mysterious things with it,” he says, and he is now working on a deterministic basis for quantum theory. He also received a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics this year. qspace.fqxi.org/news/165296/...

Peter Coles founded the Open Journal of Astrophysics in 2016 after realising that his university was spending enough on journal subscriptions to hire two more lecturing staff. It offers free peer review for arXiv papers + saved the community > half a million $USD. qspace.fqxi.org/articles/278...

Physicist Jenny Nielsen @startigerjln.bsky.social has proposed a new 9-D topological unified field theory on the complex Hopf fibration. Join the discussion on QSpace forums here → forums.fqxi.org/d/4306

Many of our members have considered whether AI could become conscious, and if it did, how could we even tell? Susan Schneider, one of FQxI's Scientific Advisory Panel, has proposed an Artificial Consciousness Test (ACT) designed to address that. @sigalsamuel.bsky.social www.vox.com/future-perfe...

"Physics writes equations, humanities talk about emotions. But the world is one” says Carlo Rovelli. Sean Carroll's Bayesian approach relies on computer scientist and philosopher Judea Pearl's breakthrough that taught AI systems to distinguish correlation from causation. @seanmcarroll.bsky.social

FQxI's Nicole Yunger Halpern, a quantum physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland (UMD), in College Park, has been honored with an Early Career Scientist Award, presented every three years.

Peer review gatekeeping may be unnecessary for good science. In eLife, editors publish papers first, then add reviews after. READ MORE: qspace.fqxi.org/articles/272...

[SWIPE —>] Physicist Eduardo Guendelman just published research that tackles one of string theory's biggest issues: the swampland problem. Read more: qspace.fqxi.org/news/165301/...

[SWIPE -->] In science, few problems are tougher than explaining consciousness. Robert Lawrence Kuhn’s “A landscape of consciousness“ is a comprehensive review of theories. Find out more: qspace.fqxi.org/news/165289/... @closertotruth.bsky.social

Win $53,000 for writing about quantum biology. Open to everyone worldwide - no science degree needed. No age restrictions either. Deadline: Sept 29, 10am ET. Details: qspace.fqxi.org/competitions...

If black holes truly erased quantum information, empty space itself would radiate at an impossibly high temperature, around 10³² K. Clearly, that's not happening, so something deeper must be wrong. MORE INFO: qspace.fqxi.org/articles/165...

Attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities have already triggered at least one internal radiation leak, but should we be concerned that Israeli bombing could cause a larger nuclear accident?

DESI and ACT show different results. DESI’s map of 15M galaxies suggests dark energy driving cosmic expansion could be fading over time (2.8–4.2σ signal) @berkeleylab.lbl.gov ACT’s CMB measurements still fit the ΛCDM model with constant dark energy. qspace.fqxi.org/podcasts/124/2025.06.01

Now Open: The 2025 FQxI Essay Competition In partnership with the Paradox Science Institute (www.paradoxscience.org) How Quantum is Life? 💰 $53,000 prize pot 📅 Submissions open: June 23 – September 29, 2025 🌍 Open to all. No institutional affiliation required qspace.fqxi.org/competitions...

Einstein’s Λ may need revisiting. Niayesh Afshordi (Perimeter Institute) points to fresh DESI results. Berkeley Lab and UC Santa Cruz report a 3σ signal, indicating only ~0.3 % odds of statistical fluke and hinting that dark energy could be changing. qspace.fqxi.org/podcasts/124... #DarkEnergy#DESI

Scientists always assumed the cosmological constant was, well, constant. DESI's new data suggests otherwise. Dark energy could be gradually evolving, weakening over time. LISTEN TO OUR FULL PODCAST ON THIS: qspace.fqxi.org/podcasts/124/2025.06.01 #Science #DarkEnergy #DESI

Thrilled to launch our new #EssayCompetition with paradoxscience.org How Quantum is Life? 🧬 Prize: US$53,000 🔬 Submit deep, original essays: qspace.fqxi.org/competitions... 🗓️ Opens: June 23, 2025 ⏳ Deadline: Sept 29, 2025 🏆 Winners: Dec 15, 2025 #HowQuantumIsLife

We’re very excited to partner with the Paradox Science Institute (www.paradoxscience.org) on a new essay competition.⁠ ⁠ Any guesses on the theme?⁠ Closest answer gets a shoutout when we reveal! ⬇⁠ Full details on June 10th. Get ready.⁠ ⁠ #EssayCompetition #BigQuestions #ParadoxScienceInstitute

An exciting opportunity is just around the corner. Think thoughtful, challenging, and possibly 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞-𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠⁣.⁠ Stay tuned—you won’t want to miss this. 👀 ⁠ #ComingSoon

Excited to announce our upcoming workshop: Reduction and Emergence in Physics and Cosmology at LMU Munich on May 16, 2025. We’ll explore how modern physics challenges traditional reductionist views, with insights from George Ellis and LMU scholars. Details here: www.cas.lmu.de/de/veranstal...

Quantum effects like superposition and entanglement have long been seen in single particles, but physicists are on a quest to find out just how big an object can be before it loses its quantumness

Science! Like #ScienceFiction, there are different flavours. So, when asked which of my #Shortstories in "A Short History of the Future" (@northodoxpress.bsky.social) might appeal to the fundamental physicists, I could only... Write a blog piece for @fqxi.bsky.social! qspace.fqxi.org/news/165300/...

If you have a pizza with radius z and thickness a, its volume is pi*z*z*a.

I really don't think this news has made sufficient shock waves. Dr Katherine Calvin, NASA Chief Scientist Trump-Musk just fired, is the highest ranking American on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC. She is co-chair of Working Group 3 on mitigation. This is a climate attack.

[2/2] How to Start Your Own Journal: Quantum ⁠ Q&A with Lídia del Rio and Marcus Huber, the founders of the Quantum Journal. FULL STORY: qspace.fqxi.org/articles/268... #Quantum #Journal #ResearchScience

[1/2] How to Start Your Own Journal: Quantum ⁠ Q&A with Lídia del Rio and Marcus Huber, the founders of the Quantum Journal. FULL STORY: qspace.fqxi.org/articles/268... #Quantum #Journal #ResearchScience

7. How to write consistently boring scientific literature. “Hell – is sitting on a hot stone reading your own scientific publications” Erik Ursin, fish biologist Thanks @fattebertj.bsky.social Open Access nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

6. How to Write Clearly www.harmonize.com/probe/Bullet...

5. How to write an excellent review article bsky.app/profile/scin...

4. How to Pick a Graduate Advisor Thanks💐 @richardhuskey.bsky.social Open access www.cell.com/neuron/pdf/S...