Math and Science News from Quanta Magazine View this email in your browser ABSTRACTIONS BLOG    Neutrino Asymmetry Passes Critical Threshold By  NATALIE WOLCHOVER The first official evidence of a key imbalance between neutrinos and antineutrinos provides one of the best clues for why the universe contains something rather than nothing. Read the blog Share Tweet Forward ABSTRACTIONS BLOG(2019)   How the Neutrino's Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big Mysteries By  MARCUS WOO The KATRIN experiment is closing in on the mass of the neutrino, which could reshape particle physics and theories of cosmology. Read the blog PARTICLE PHYSICS(2016)   Neutrinos Hint of Matter-Antimatter Rift By NATALIE WOLCHOVER An early sign that neutrinos behave differently than antineutrinos suggests an answer to one of the biggest questions in physics. Read the article Q&A   The Computer Scientist Who Can't Stop Telling Stories By  SUSAN D'AGOSTINO For pioneering computer scientist Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression. Read the interview Share Tweet Forward Q&A(2019)   The Architect of Modern Algorithms By  SUSAN D'AGOSTINO Read the interview MICROBIOLOGY   Some Animals Have No Microbiome. Here's What That Tells Us. By  JORDANA CEPELEWICZ To stay healthy, humans and some other animals rely on a complex community of bacteria in their guts. But research is starting to show that those partnerships might be more the exception than the rule. Read the article Share Tweet Forward EVOLUTION(2018)   Should Evolution Treat Our Microbes as Part of Us? By  JONATHAN LAMBERT Read the article QUANTIZED COLUMNS   Remembering the Unstoppable Freeman Dyson By  ROBBERT DIJKGRAAF Freeman Dyson — physicist, mathematician, writer and idea factory — died on February 28, but his vitality lives on. Read the column Share Tweet Forward Q&A(2014)   A 'Rebel' Without a Ph.D. By THOMAS LIN Read the interview Follow Quanta Simons Foundation 160 5th Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY 10010 Unsubscribe | About Quanta Privacy Policy | Terms | Contact Us   Copyright © 2020 Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent division of Simons Foundation