Quanta Magazine

How Paradoxical Questions and Simple Wonder Lead to Gre...

Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous q...

Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill

Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilog...

Graduate Student Solves Classic Problem About the Limit...

A new proof illuminates the hidden patterns that emerge when addition becomes im...

For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time

One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on o...

‘Turbocharged’ Mitochondria Power Birds’ Epic Migratory...

Slight changes in the number, shape, efficiency and interconnectedness of organe...

New ‘Superdiffusion’ Proof Probes the Mysterious Math o...

Turbulence is a notoriously difficult phenomenon to study. Mathematicians are no...

How Did Geometry Create Modern Physics?

Geometry may have its origins thousands of years ago in ancient land surveying, ...

How the Universe Differs From Its Mirror Image

From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of “c...

Introducing The Quanta Podcast

Exploring the distant universe, the insides of cells, the abstractions of math, ...

Dimension 126 Contains Strangely Twisted Shapes, Mathem...

A new proof represents the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous sh...

The Fastest Way Yet to Color Graphs

Researchers have devised a scheme for painting the edges of a graph that’s almos...

Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans?

AI may sound like a human, but that doesn’t mean that AI learns like a human. In...

Science, Promise and Peril in the Age of AI

An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do sc...

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