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Nov 19, 2025 - Encouraged by successes in understanding black holes, theoretical physicists are applying what they’ve learned to whole universes. What they’re finding has...

May 4, 2023 - If we want to understand complex constructions, such as ourselves, assembly theory says we must account for the entire history of how such entities came to be.

Nov 21, 2025 - Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of...

Sep 15, 2025 - In “Science, Promise and Peril in the Age of AI,” a new special series released today, Quanta Magazine looks far beyond AI-based research tools to...

Sep 15, 2025 - Earth’s radiation can send some molecules spinning or vibrating, which is what makes them greenhouse gases. This infographic explains how relatively few...

Apr 17, 2023 - Arvind Narayanan uses quantitative methods to expose and correct the misuse of quantitative methods.

Feb 26, 2021 - Renormalization has become perhaps the single most important advance in theoretical physics in 50 years.

Nov 5, 2025 - A sudden flash of insight is a product of your brain. Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha” and how it might boost memory.

Illuminating mathematics, physics, biology and computer science research through public service journalism.

Jan 5, 2026 - Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means is up for interpretation.

Nov 14, 2025 - Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of the theory into a new era of...

Nov 24, 2025 - The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by genome sequencing.

Jun 6, 2023 - No two pairs have the same sum; add three numbers together, and you can get any whole number.

Dec 8, 2025 - A newly proposed explanation for the slipperiness of ice has revived a centuries-long debate.

Nov 19, 2025 - Has the secret to understanding gravity been hiding in plain sight for nearly 50 years?

Jul 8, 2025 - A new argument explores how the growth of disorder could cause massive objects to move toward one another. Physicists are both interested and skeptical.

Nov 25, 2025 - Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive.

Math and science stories

Jan 6, 2026 - Large language models such as ChatGPT come with filters to keep certain info from getting out. A new mathematical argument shows that systems like this can...

Oct 13, 2025 - Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds. One of the most ambitious...