87K views · 688 reactions | Quantum chromodynamics predicts that the proton is, at high resolution, a dandelion-like cloud made up almost entirely of force-carrying particles called gluons. https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-proton-the-most-complicated-thing-imaginable-20221019/ | Quanta Magazine | Facebook

3.7K views · 235 reactions | The winners of this year’s #NobelPrize in Physics helped demonstrate that black holes play a critical role in the cosmos. Follow our continuing coverage of the prize here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/physics-nobel-awarded-for-black-hole-breakthroughs-20201006/ | Quanta Magazine | Facebook

If you understand basic arithmetic, you can make it to an exoplanet. Try out Hyperjumps!, Quanta’s first interactive math puzzle: https://hyperjumps.quantamagazine.org/ | Quanta Magazine

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This is a microscopic view of apoptosis, the process by which cells violently self-terminate. Some evolutionary biologists suspect that this mechanism originated in the bacterial ancestors of mitochondria. (From the archive) https://www.quantamagazine.org/cellular-self-destruction-may-be-ancient-but-why-20240306/ | Quanta Magazine