Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine's articles about mathematics, p
The search for exotic new physical phenomena is being led by huge experiments like the Large Hadron
A new study reveals that individual genes can create many different versions of the molecular machin
The story of the universe’s birth — and evidence for string theory — could be found in triangles and
In the new, free-for-all era of dark matter research, the controversial idea that dark matter is con
A project to decipher the brain’s learning rules could revolutionize machine learning. Th
The Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska has solved the centuries-old sphere-packing problem in
New insights from neuroscience — aided by a small zoo’s worth of dancing animals — are revealing the
A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers seems to violate a long-standing assumption about h
The mathematician John Horton Conway’s myriad accomplishments — including the Game of Life, sprouts
A satellite spotted a burst of light just as gravitational waves rolled in from the collision of two
In a virtuoso experiment, physicists have revealed details of a “quantum critical point” that underl
Perhaps chemistry played a more instrumental role in the origin of life than scientists thought.
Ripples in space-time have been detected a century after Einstein predicted them, launching a new er
Searching for signs of life on faraway planets, astrobiologists must decide which telltale biosignat
The same brain cells that track location in space appear to also count beats in time. The research s
Bizarre quantum bonds connect distinct moments in time, suggesting that quantum links — not space-ti
Two leading candidates for a “theory of everything,” long thought to be incompatible, may be two sid
Computer scientists are abuzz over a fast new algorithm for solving one of the central problems in t
A new breakthrough that bridges number theory and geometry is just the latest triumph for a close-kn
Nature offers species a panoply of ways to determine an organism’s sex. That flexibility suggests we
