Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine's articles about mathematics, p
Neuroscientists uncovered an energy-saving mode in vision-system neurons that works at the cost of b
Computer scientists can now solve a decades-old problem in practically the time it takes to write it
Jared Duker Lichtman, 26, has proved a longstanding conjecture relating prime numbers to a broad cla
The second law of thermodynamics is among the most sacred in all of science, but it has always reste
Robots are about to venture into the sunless depths of lunar craters to investigate ancient water ic
For centuries, mathematicians have tried to prove that Euler’s fluid equations can produce nonsensic
The existence of secure cryptography depends on one of the oldest questions in computational complex
Dopamine, a neurochemical often associated with reward behavior, also seems to help organize precise
Biomechanical interactions, rather than neurons, control the movements of one of the simplest animal
Dwarf galaxies weren’t supposed to have big black holes. Their surprise discovery has revealed clues
Physicists are reexamining a longstanding assumption: that big stuff consists of smaller stuff.
Researchers have mapped hundreds of semantic categories to the tiny bits of the cortex that represen
Two teams have shown how quantum approaches can solve problems faster than classical computers, brin
Large blocks of genes conserved through hundreds of millions of years of evolution hint at how the f
We might have a past faint sun to owe for life’s existence. This has consequences for the possibilit
Studies that map the adaptive value of viral mutations hint at how the COVID-19 pandemic might progr
New studies reveal the ancient, shared genetic “grammar” underpinning the diverse evolution of fish
Decades ago, a mathematician posed a warmup problem for some of the most difficult questions about p
A new paper shows how to create longer disordered strings than mathematicians had thought possible,
By carefully constructing a multidimensional and well-connected graph, a team of researchers has fin
