Quanta Magazine

New Conversations, Deep Questions, Bold Ideas in Season...

Steven Strogatz and Janna Levin return for a new season on major scientific and ...

The Road Map to Alien Life Passes Through the ‘Cosmic S...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetar...

Why Do Researchers Care About Small Language Models?

Larger models can pull off greater feats, but the accessibility and efficiency o...

‘Next-Level’ Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability

In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questio...

A New, Chemical View of Ecosystems

Rare and powerful compounds, known as keystone molecules, can build a web of inv...

Years After the Early Death of a Math Genius, Her Ideas...

A new proof extends the work of the late Maryam Mirzakhani, cementing her legacy...

The Physicist Working to Build Science-Literate AI

By training machine learning models with enough examples of basic science, Miles...

The ‘Elegant’ Math Model That Could Help Rescue Coral R...

Physicists and marine biologists built a quantitative framework that predicts ho...

New Maps of the Bizarre, Chaotic Space-Time Inside Blac...

Physicists hope that understanding the churning region near singularities might ...

How ‘Event Scripts’ Structure Our Personal Memories

By screening films in a brain scanner, neuroscientists discovered a rich library...

After 20 Years, Math Couple Solves Major Group Theory P...

Britta Späth has dedicated her career to proving a single, central conjecture. S...

Catalytic Computing Taps the Full Power of a Full Hard ...

Ten years ago, researchers proved that adding full memory can theoretically aid ...

The Largest Sofa You Can Move Around a Corner

A new proof reveals the answer to the decades-old “moving sofa” problem. It high...

How Hans Bethe Stumbled Upon Perfect Quantum Theories

Quantum calculations amount to sophisticated estimates. But in 1931, Hans Bethe ...

Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data str...

How Noether’s Theorem Revolutionized Physics

Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are just a consequence of sim...

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