Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine's articles about mathematics, p
Cell membranes from comb jellies reveal a new kind of adaptation to the deep sea: curvy lipids that
While devising a new quantum algorithm, four researchers accidentally established a hard limit on en
Carbon dioxide’s powerful heat-trapping effect has been traced to a quirk of its quantum structure.
Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing
Physicists have ruled out a mundane explanation for the strange findings of an old Soviet experiment
Researchers have proved that secure quantum encryption is possible in a world without hard problems.
New experiments reveal how the brain chooses which memories to save and add credence to advice about
Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra
A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic pos
A generation of physicists has referred to the dark energy that permeates the universe as “the cosmo
Electroconvulsive therapy is highly effective in treating major depressive disorder, but no one know
Long-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of energ
Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are mathematica
A controversial technique has produced detailed maps of the magnetic fields in colossal galaxy clust
Recent observations of an aging, alien planetary system are helping to answer the question: What wil
Recent efforts to map every cell in the human body have researchers floored by unfathomable diversit
Astronomers thought they had solved the mystery of gamma-ray bursts. A few recent events suggest oth
For 50 years, physicists have understood current as a flow of charged particles. But a new experimen
Sitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which
Cells in the placenta have an unusual trick for activating gentle immune defenses and keeping them t
