Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine's articles about mathematics, p
After decades in the shadow of the reigning model for Alzheimer’s disease, alternative explanations
Theory has it that “Population III” stars brought light to the cosmos. The James Webb Space Telescop
An energy-efficient chip called NeuRRAM fixes an old design flaw to run large-scale AI algorithms on
Supergenes that lock inherited traits together are widespread in nature. Recent work shows that thei
A recent gamma-ray burst known as the BOAT — “brightest of all time” — appears to have produced a hi
The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one
A new atomic-scale experiment all but settles the origin of the strong form of superconductivity see
Robots can surpass the limitations on how high and far animals can jump, but their success only unde
When the brain encodes memories as positive or negative, one molecule determines which way they will
Eric Larson and Isabel Vogt have solved the interpolation problem — a centuries-old question about s
The key to understanding the origin and fate of the universe may be a more complete understanding of
Partnerships between engineers and biologists have begun to reveal how birds evolved their superb ma
Structural studies of the robust material called sporopollenin reveal how it made plants hardy enoug
Protein buildups like those seen around neurons in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other brain diseases
Neuroscientists uncovered an energy-saving mode in vision-system neurons that works at the cost of b
Computer scientists can now solve a decades-old problem in practically the time it takes to write it
Jared Duker Lichtman, 26, has proved a longstanding conjecture relating prime numbers to a broad cla
The second law of thermodynamics is among the most sacred in all of science, but it has always reste
Robots are about to venture into the sunless depths of lunar craters to investigate ancient water ic
For centuries, mathematicians have tried to prove that Euler’s fluid equations can produce nonsensic
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