The James Webb Space Telescope spots mysterious “little red dots” everywhere. A bold new theory suggests they’re suns dozens ...
Around 700 million years ago, a group of organisms resembling little more than glowing, gelatinous blobs split off from the rest of the animals, forming possibly the earliest branching animal lineage.
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.
Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” ...
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.
Richard Prum explains why he thinks feathers and vibrant traits in birds evolved not solely for survival, but also through aesthetic choice. The Quanta Newsletter ...
By revisiting the famous problem — which was controversially solved in the 1970s with the help of computers — mathematicians ...
The mystery of the flipping foraminifera may conceal a rarely observed evolutionary process playing out across the planet.
The James Webb Space Telescope spots mysterious “little red dots” everywhere. A bold new theory suggests they’re suns dozens of times larger than our entire solar system. Faced with observations of ...
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