Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine's articles about mathematics, p
A different kind of dark matter could help to resolve an old celestial conundrum. The pos
The three young friends who devised the “happy ending” problem would become some of the most influen
Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with
Powerful new quantitative tools are now available to combat partisan bias in the drawing of voting d
When a German retiree proved a famous long-standing mathematical conjecture, the response was underw
For decades, researchers believed that violent supernovas forged gold and other heavy elements. But
The ancient creatures who first crawled onto land may have been lured by the informational benefit t
For centuries, mathematicians tried to solve problems by adding new values to the usual numbers. Now
Powerful new experiments have uncovered some of the molecular underpinnings of sleep. The
Physicists are closing the door on an intriguing loophole around the quantum phenomenon Einstein cal
The ancient Greeks argued that the best life was filled with beauty, truth, justice, play and love.
Researchers have discovered that simple “chemically active” droplets grow to the size of cells and s
Is the brain a blank slate, or is it wired from birth to understand the world? The post I
By folding fractals into 3-D objects, a mathematical duo hopes to gain new insight into simple equat
Physicists have failed to find disintegrating protons, throwing into limbo the beloved theory that t
The impasse in math and science instruction runs deeper than test scores or the latest educational t
A proposed theory of gravity does away with dark matter, even as new astrophysical findings challeng
Can a fluid analogue of a black hole point physicists toward the theory of quantum gravity, or is it
In a monumental set of experiments, spread out over nearly two decades, biologists removed genes two
Computer scientists have come up with a bounded algorithm that can fairly divide a cake among any nu
