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When Fields Medalist Yu Deng and collaborators Zaher Hani and Xiao Ma solved David Hilbert’s 124-year-old “sixth problem,” it took months for the rest of the mathematical community to even start to digest it

Yu Deng Wins the Fields Medal 2026 for His Work on the Random Data Problem | Quanta Magazine

Before he won a Fields Medal for his pioneering work balancing randomness and order, Yu Deng first had to achieve equilibrium in his own life.

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Congratulations to Hannah Fry on a well deserved award!

One for the Montréal crowd: quantum physics, consciousness, agency and AI come together at ÉTS on August 11. Featuring Charles Alexandre Bédard in the Quanta Session. Registration required: www.etsmtl.ca/en/events/qu...

From Quanta to Qualia

Jointly organized by ÉTS Montréal and the Foundational Questions Institute (FQxI), with the participation of ÉTS's Institute of Quantum Science and Engineering, the event on August 11 is intended for…

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1/4 How do you escape the "parallel universe of fake papers?" @nicolakimjones.bsky.social spoke with Ilka Agricola, chair of the IMU's committee on publishing and a physicist and mathematician at the University of Marburg, in Germany. Full story: qspace.fqxi.org/articles/281...

Meet our new Foundational Fellows: Jordan Scharnhost, Caroline Jones, Nuriya Nurgalieva, Lucy James, Jennifer Rittenhouse, Joseph Schindler

A corridor chat with Chris Smeenk, professor at @westernu.ca, about correcting common misunderstandings about the Big Bang and the early universe. Chris' research centres around the scientific method and the nature of our knowledge of physics.

A word from our cofounder Anthony Aguirre on the Foundational Answers Workshop at Broughton Hall, the launch of a new FQxI program exploring what 20 years of asking the big questions in physics and cosmology have actually taught us. Keep your eyes peeled for more soon!

The levels in this horror game are generated on a real quantum computer. We asked Moth's chief scientist, @decodoku.bsky.social, how that works. Find out how it works: qspace.fqxi.org/news/165325/...

Lots of research papers come out every year. A growing number are fakes. [THREAD]

@chanda.blacksky.app explains how Sankofa, the idea of going back and getting what we’ve forgotten, connects to cosmology, Black history, and the origins of the universe.

[IMAGE THREAD] Are we being too cheeky saying nothing is real until it is observed? Let us know.

Decades of BBC science docs, and now a channel of his own. Go subscribe: qspace.fqxi.org/news/165324/... @jimalkhalili.bsky.social

(thread) FQxI's Ekkehard Peik (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, PTB) came up with the nuclear clock back in 2003, then waited nearly twenty years for anyone to build one. This June, his own team finally did. Full story: qspace.fqxi.org/news/165323/...

New paper from our members David Deutsch, Chiara Marletto and Vlatko Vedral: "Tests of constructor theory." It lays out how the theory can actually be tested, with some of the experiments already done. 🔗 Find out more: qspace.fqxi.org/news/165322/...

Michael Montague won 3rd place in our essay competition, “How Quantum Is Life?”, which awarded $53,000 across anonymously submitted entries. This is a clip from our interview with Michael. You can listen to the podcast featuring more of the winners, below.

Michael Montague is a microbiologist @quantumbiodao.bsky.social and 3rd-prize winner in our "How Quantum is Life?" essay competition.

We Interviewed Harry Kumar, co-founder of Moth Quantum, at SXSW after hearing their talk on their new game 'Quantum Backrooms'.

This game runs on a quantum computer! It’s a nod to the Backrooms internet aesthetic, popularised by online communities. mothquantum.com/quantumbackr...

Joshua Deutsch on why FQxI helps make space for fundamental questions that don’t fit the usual funding priorities.

Nicola Jones spoke to arXiv's steward Greg Morrisett on why arXiv is becoming an independent non-profit after 35 years, and how it aims to tackle AI slop. Full article on QSpace: qspace.fqxi.org/articles/285...

Gabriela Frajtag is twenty years old and won the Undergraduate Special Prize in FQxI's $53,000 USD essay competition. Listen to the full podcast: qspace.fqxi.org/podcasts/129... Watch Gabriela's video chat: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN9U... Read Gabriela's essay: qspace.fqxi.org/competitions...

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THREAD: Why did a US$3-million-winning result leave one physicist feeling like Peanut’s character Charlie Brown, scuppered from kicking the football at the last second by his friend Lucy? qspace.fqxi.org/news/165320/...

Four FQxI members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Congratulations to @bousso.bsky.social, Hiranya Peiris, Doris Tsao, and James Owen Weatherall. qspace.fqxi.org/news/165321/...

THREAD: Funding agencies, AI, and even scientists themselves favor tried-and-tested research avenues over exploring new ideas, to the detriment of progress. Full piece by @georgemusser.com → qspace.fqxi.org/articles/284... Featuring: @carlbergstrom.com, @cbo.bsky.social and @dashunwang.bsky.social

The world needs opposites to get along, work together...music is a good way to do so.

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Industrial electronics and classical piano on the same stage at the Holywell Music Room, one of the oldest concert venues in Europe. Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin, Bob Coecke and Bruce Warner closed out the Oxford Quantum Centenary Conference. qspace.fqxi.org/videos/566/i...

Industrial electronics and classical piano on the same stage at the Holywell Music Room, one of the oldest concert venues in Europe. Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin, Bob Coecke and Bruce Warner closed out the Oxford Quantum Centenary Conference. qspace.fqxi.org/videos/566/i...

An exciting astronomy milestone was hit last night, as DESI completed its original 5-year survey mapping 40 million galaxies in the night sky! DESI continues operation, now aiming for an 8-year survey and ~60 million galaxies. 🔭🧪 #cosmology newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/04/15/d...

DESI Completes Planned 3D Map of the Universe and Continues Exploring

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its originally planned five-year mission and will continue.

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Photographer Lalo de Almeida has been documenting the industrialisation taking place in the Amazon rainforest after the Brazilian government relaxed environmental controls

Stark photos show quest for profit cutting swathes through the Amazon

Photographer Lalo de Almeida has been documenting the industrialisation taking place in the Amazon rainforest after the Brazilian government relaxed environmental controls

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