Studies of neural metabolism reveal our brain’s effort to keep us alive and the evolutionary constraints that sculpted our ...

By extending the scope of the key insight behind Fermat’s Last Theorem, four mathematicians have made great strides toward ...

Reversible programs run backward as easily as they run forward, saving energy in theory. After decades of research, they may ...

Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go ...

Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a ...

Conor Feehly is a science writer based in New Zealand. He covers topics ranging from astronomy to neuroscience.

Since the start of the 20th century, the heart of mathematics has been the proof — a rigorous, logical argument for whether a given statement is true or false. Mathematicians’ careers are measured by ...

Po-Shen Loh discusses his approach to coaching the United States International Mathematical Olympiad team and reveals what he believes to be the major problem with math education.

Mathematicians have figured out how to expand the reach of a mysterious bridge connecting two distant continents in the mathematical world. The Quanta Newsletter ...

Reversible programs run backward as easily as they run forward, saving energy in theory. After decades of research, they may soon power AI. Exploring the distant universe, the insides of cells, the ...

About the author Charlie Wood is a staff writer covering physics at Quanta Magazine.His articles about advances in the physical sciences both on and off the planet have appeared in Popular Science, ...