Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine's articles about mathematics, p
On November 16, 2018, more than 200 readers joined writers and editors from Quanta Magazine for a wi
The long, variable times that some diseases incubate after infection defies simple explanation. An i
The latest artificial intelligence systems start from zero knowledge of a game and grow to world-bea
A new study challenges one of the most celebrated and controversial ideas in network science.
New algorithms show how swarms of very simple robots can be made to work together as a group.
Cosmologists have shown that it’s theoretically possible for a contracting universe to bounce and ex
Near an Australian desert mining camp, wild dingoes are losing their fear of humans. Their genetic a
A series of fossil finds suggests that life on Earth started earlier than anyone thought, calling in
Two mathematicians prove that under certain extreme conditions, the Navier-Stokes equations output n
Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa’s lab is overturning old assumptions about how memories form, how rec
An eminent mathematician reveals that his advances in the study of millennia-old mathematical questi
Kidneys sniff out signals from gut bacteria for cues to lower blood pressure after meals. Our unders
The oldest law of genetics says that gametes combine randomly, but experiments hint that sometimes e
Elephants did not evolve to become huge animals until after they turned a bit of genetic junk into a
To efficiently analyze a firehose of data, scientists first have to break big numbers into bits.
Physicists theorize that a new “traversable” kind of wormhole could resolve a baffling paradox and r
Researchers are building a case that long before the nervous system works, the brain sends crucial b
A new idea is helping to explain the puzzling success of today’s artificial-intelligence algorithms
Computer scientists are finding ways to code curiosity into intelligent machines. The pos
The mathematician Svitlana Mayboroda and collaborators have figured out how to predict the behavior
