Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine's articles about mathematics, p
Heat is supposed to ruin anything it touches. But physicists have shown that an idealized form of ma
One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famou
Mathematicians have started to prepare for a profound shift in what it means to do math.This is the
Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages t
The brain’s astounding cellular diversity and networked complexity could show how to make AI better.
The Quanta Podcast is your weekly dispatch from the frontiers of science and mathematics. In each ep
In a first, researchers have shown that adding more “qubits” to a quantum computer can make it more
The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversi
Three new species of superconductivity were spotted this year, illustrating the myriad ways electron
A new experimental proposal suggests detecting a particle of gravity is far easier than anyone imagi
Invisibly to us, insects and other tiny creatures use static electricity to travel, avoid predators,
Cell membranes from comb jellies reveal a new kind of adaptation to the deep sea: curvy lipids that
While devising a new quantum algorithm, four researchers accidentally established a hard limit on en
Carbon dioxide’s powerful heat-trapping effect has been traced to a quirk of its quantum structure.
Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing
Physicists have ruled out a mundane explanation for the strange findings of an old Soviet experiment
Researchers have proved that secure quantum encryption is possible in a world without hard problems.
New experiments reveal how the brain chooses which memories to save and add credence to advice about
Zero, which was invented late in history, is special among numbers. New studies are uncovering how t
Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra
