Math and Science News from Quanta Magazine View this email in your browser QUANTIZED COLUMNS   What Other Coronaviruses Tell Us About SARS-CoV-2 By TARA C. SMITH As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, our extensive knowledge of other coronaviruses informs our understanding. Read the column Have your own questions about the coronavirus? Submit them in the article's comments section, and tune in to a live Q&A with the infectious disease researcher Tara Smith, at 4 p.m. ET today (Friday, May 1) on Quanta's YouTube channel. Share Tweet Forward QUANTIZED COLUMNS   The Animal Origins of Coronavirus and Flu By  TARA C. SMITH Zoonotic diseases like influenza and many coronaviruses start out in animals, but their biological machinery often enables them to jump to humans. Read the column QUANTIZED COLUMNS(2019)   How to Permanently End Diseases By TARA C. SMITH Smallpox was eradicated relatively quickly, but other diseases have proved harder to eliminate. The reasons are a mix of biology and psychology. Read the column ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE   Common Sense Comes Closer to Computers By  JOHN PAVLUS The problem of common-sense reasoning has plagued the field of artificial intelligence for over 50 years. Now a new approach, borrowing from two disparate lines of thinking, has made important progress. Read the article Share Tweet Forward (2019)ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE   Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand? By  JOHN PAVLUS Read the article ABSTRACTIONS BLOG   What Might Be Speeding Up the Universe's Expansion? By  THOMAS LEWTON Physicists have proposed extra cosmic ingredients that could explain the faster-than-expected expansion of space. Read the blog Share Tweet Forward ABSTRACTIONS BLOG   New Wrinkle Added to Cosmology's Hubble Crisis By NATALIE WOLCHOVER Read the blog ABSTRACTIONS BLOG   Math After COVID-19 By  KEVIN HARTNETT Modern mathematics relies on collaboration and travel. COVID-19 is making it increasingly difficult. Read the blog Share Tweet Forward TOPOLOGY   Mathematics as a Team Sport By KEVIN HARTNETT Read the article 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