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Flow proof helps mathematicians find stability in chaos

by : Staff , Quanta

A series of new papers, including one by Kathryn Mann, associate professor of mathematics and Joyce A. Yelencsics ’65 and Frederick M Rosevear Faculty Leadership Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences, describes how to reconstruct key dynamical systems, which address how phenomena as simple as a pendulum’s back-and-forth motion or as complex as the weather evolve over time, with relatively…

Webb’s First Deep Field is galaxy cluster SMACS 0723
NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI Webb’s First Deep Field is galaxy cluster SMACS 0723

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A dream of discovering alien life finds new hope

by : Staff , Quanta

When NASA’s Kepler mission glimpsed its first two Earth-size exoplanets with a decent chance of having liquid water on their surfaces a decade ago, mission head Bill Borucki turned to Lisa Kaltenegger, who is now associate professor of astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Carl Sagan Institute, to confirm that the planets might be habitable, reports a feature in Quanta…