Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine's articles about mathematics, p
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
Hybrids, once treated as biological misfits, play a vital role in the evolution of many animal speci
Textbooks say that the moon was formed after a Mars-size mass smashed the young Earth. But new evide
John Nash’s notion of equilibrium is ubiquitous in economic theory, but a new study shows that it is
A French mathematician has completed the classification of all convex pentagons, and therefore all c
If gut bacteria can sway their hosts to be selfless, it could answer a riddle that goes back to Darw
A different kind of dark matter could help to resolve an old celestial conundrum. The pos
