These are the year’s computational revelations, as curated by Quanta’s executive editor @mmoyer.bsky.social: www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-...

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

"All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again."

John Noble Wilford, science writing legend, dies at 92. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/s...

Y'all the latest episode of the #Kilauea #eruption just went CRAZY. It looks like pressure built up enough to explode out the ground around the two existing vents (first few seconds), leading to a massive surge in lava fountaining.🌋🤯 USGS Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...

The best end-of-year list is always the Jealousy List: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions. #ScienceUnderSiege

It's hard to escape the conclusion that the people in charge of medical research in this country think that medical research—indeed, all of modern medicine—is bad.

Apropos of nothing, have you ever wondered why magnets work? www.quantamagazine.org/the-cartoon-...

this shit looks like someone’s about to shoot franz ferdinand

I realize that Bob Iger does not personally read the explanations people give when they cancel Disney+, but still, it was cathartic.

My colleagues just posted an incredibly ambitious series about the science of climate science. I hope you'll check it out: www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...

Seeking science journalists: @quantamagazine.bsky.social is hiring a physics editor! A rare opportunity to join this great team and lead coverage of this foundational vertical. Please reach out with any questions and share widely simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/simons...

I've subscribed to Defector since week 1 and it is great, long live blogs.

Saw my first Waymo in NYC (w/ driver). Same spot, 30 seconds earlier, a Jeep with monster-truck tires made an illegal U-turn across two double-yellow lines and nearly hit a cyclist.

This is very odd - we've found loads of articles attempting to discredit these scientists, all anonymously published. It's still unclear who is producing these articles, and why

One thing we’re going to see a *lot* of: Pieces that appear to explore an intellectually provocative question inspired by AI, but that assume a premise (in this case “friendship with a chatbot is possible”) that’s a) nonsensical and b) perfectly aligned with the aims of AI marketing

Humans are excellent at smelling things! Better than dogs, sometimes. The reason why we're told otherwise is due to a mistranslation of a 19th-century French theory of what makes humans special. And Freud. He didn't help, either.

Data: People who eat 1 hot dog a day (!!!) Expert conclusion: Maybe eat less Headline: NO SAFE AMOUNT www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/h...

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

RIP William Langewiesche, the master of illuminating difficult subjects (engineering, airplanes, etc.) with riveting narratives www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/b...

I know the reporters generally don’t write the headlines; when they’re this bad someone should come out and own it to take the heat off the reporter. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Mortgaging your brand to publish lots of mediocre work in the service of editorial volume used to be called a "blog network." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/b...

Herr Doktor von Braun would like a word

Do singularities exist? I'd always thought they were purely mathematical artifacts, but recent work in mathematical physics work from @bousso.bsky.social and others hint otherwise (for sufficiently broad definitions of "singularities" and "exist"). www.quantamagazine.org/singularitie...

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

this fucking psychopath has no business leading the agency responsible for the nation’s health. it’s ridiculous!

The internet as an ouroboros of machine-generated slop optimized to serve other machines. "Websites in general will evolve to serve primarily as data sources for bots that feed LLMs, rather than destinations for consumers, she said." www.wsj.com/articles/ai-...

Just a few days after Columbia announces the Pulitzers, the university goes and suspends its own student journalists.

Very interesting oral history -- interviews with some top NLP folks on the effects of GenAI on their field: www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...

Out today: a new special series from @quantamagazine.bsky.social about science in the age of AI! It explores the roots of AI in fundamental science, how researchers are trying to make sense of AI today, and the ways they’re grappling with an uncertain future. www.quantamagazine.org/series/scien...

Thrilled to share a giant project, many months in the making, from the entire team at Quanta Magazine: Science, Progress and Peril in the Age of AI www.quantamagazine.org/series/scien...

One of the many things we do before assigning a story at @quantamagazine.bsky.social is to call up some experts and ask if it's a good story—if people in the field take the issues at stake seriously. If they say "this is ridiculous," we drop the story. Of course, there can be other approaches.

I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements" www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...

super excited to fly out of JFK with my family tomorrow

I am so incredibly thrilled to share that @quantamagazine.bsky.social just won a National Magazine Award for our big "Unraveling of Space-Time" package! asme.memberclicks.net/american-soc...

Hmmm I wonder what the WSJ reporter who wrote a book on supply chains thinks...

Take it from New Yorkers: Sometimes all you need is a well placed "go fuck yourself."

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Other fact-based ways to frame these attacks are: a) part of an ongoing GOP war against higher ed because they view it as a hostile institution b) an authoritarian breaking any venues of dissent. Going with the Trump framing is a choice to support the war and give credence to the authoritarian.

Quanta has been nominated for Best Science Website in The Webby Awards! Help us win by voting here: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

"considering leaving" isn't "leaving," but still: wowwwwwww

The coal plant is gone, but the AI data center will need the largest natural gas power planet in the country, one nearly big enough to power Manhattan. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

also as a reminder google forced its gemini into all gmail accounts without an opt-out option, so like, is google AI stealing all our state secrets now

What fun America is right now. We've a bunch of insipid lunatics running around the building knocking down load-bearing walls because it'll "open up the space" and now we're all just sitting here waiting for the fucking building to collapse on us.