Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine's articles about mathematics, p
Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are just a consequence of simple symmetries. A ce
The Busy Beaver Challenge, an open online collaboration, started in 2022 to finally solve a major pr
Turbulence is a notoriously difficult phenomenon to study. Mathematicians are now starting to untang
Individual cells in the brain light up for specific ideas. These concept neurons, once known as “Jen
Changes in the number, shape, efficiency and interconnectedness of organelles in the cells of flight
Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints
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,
