Fanni Daniella Szakál is a marine biologist turned science writer. Her work has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, and Hakai Magazine.

The mystery of the flipping foraminifera may conceal a rarely observed evolutionary process playing out across the planet.

Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” ...

Hidden correspondences hint at a deeper structure to the mathematical universe. Our columnist unpacks one of those connections and asks mathematicians what they might mean.

Sarah Demers, chair of the physics department at Yale University, sees the potential for large language models to both help ...

The group — consisting of then-postdocs Sahar Diskin and Philip Easo, graduate student Ritvik Ramanan Radhakrishnan, Benny ...

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By revisiting the famous problem — which was controversially solved in the 1970s with the help of computers — mathematicians ...

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The bacterial flagellar motor is finally understood after 50 years. In its workings, columnist Natalie Wolchover finds the essence of life.

A new magnum opus posits the existence of a hidden mathematical link akin to the connection between electricity and magnetism. The Quanta Newsletter ...