What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression?
By Steven Strogatz
How Failure Has Made Mathematics Stronger
By Jordana Cepelewicz
Electric ‘Ripples’ in the Resting Brain Tag Memories for Storage
By Yasemin Saplakoglu
He Seeks Mystery Magnetic Fields With His Quantum Compass
By Charlie Wood
Strangely Curved Shapes Break 50-Year-Old Geometry Conjecture
By Jordana Cepelewicz
Game Theory Can Make AI More Correct and Efficient
By Steve Nadis
New AI Tools Predict How Life’s Building Blocks Assemble
By Yasemin Saplakoglu
Dogged Dark Matter Hunters Find New Hiding Places to Check
By Lyndie Chiou
A Rosetta Stone for Mathematics
By Kevin Hartnett
The Mystery of the Missing Multicellular Prokaryotes
By Veronique Greenwood
Scientists Find a Fast Way to Describe Quantum Systems
By Lakshmi Chandrasekaran
To Pack Spheres Tightly, Mathematicians Throw Them at Random
By Kelsey Houston-Edwards
Does AI Know What an Apple Is? She Aims to Find Out.
By John Pavlus
What Does Milk Do for Babies?
By Steven Strogatz
Mathematicians Marvel at ‘Crazy’ Cuts Through Four Dimensions
By Jordana Cepelewicz
Cryptography Tricks Make a Hard Problem a Little Easier
By Ben Brubaker
Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits
By Leila Sloman
My Fantastic Voyage at Quanta Magazine
By Thomas Lin
Number of Distances Separating Points Has a New Bound
By Leila Sloman
Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds
By Charlie Wood
Merging Fields, Mathematicians Go the Distance on Old Problem
By Erica Klarreich
How Is Flocking Like Computing?
By Steven Strogatz
Topologists Tackle the Trouble With Poll Placement
By Lyndie Chiou
Math That Connects Where We’re Going to Where We’ve Been
By Patrick Honner
How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute
By Ben Brubaker
Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton
By Charlie Wood
A Mathematician On Creativity, Art, Logic and Language
By Jordana Cepelewicz
Physicists Finally Find a Problem Only Quantum Computers Can Do
By Lakshmi Chandrasekaran
Cellular Self-Destruction May Be Ancient. But Why?
By Veronique Greenwood
Elliptic Curve ‘Murmurations’ Found With AI Take Flight
By Lyndie Chiou
Mollusk Eyes Reveal How Future Evolution Depends on the Past
By Viviane Callier
What Is the Nature of Time?
By Steven Strogatz
How Selective Forgetting Can Help AI Learn Better
By Amos Zeeberg
‘Entropy Bagels’ and Other Complex Structures Emerge From Simple Rules
By Jordana Cepelewicz
Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information
By Ben Brubaker
A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology
By Kevin Hartnett
A Multitalented Scientist Seeks the Origins of Multicellularity
By Claudia Dreifus
How Quickly Do Large Language Models Learn Unexpected Skills?
By Stephen Ornes
Scientists Find Optimal Balance of Data Storage and Time
By Steve Nadis
Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Magnetic Fields
By Jonathan O'Callaghan
What Makes for ‘Good’ Mathematics?
By Steven Strogatz
How to Build an Origami Computer
By Jordana Cepelewicz
Researchers Approach New Speed Limit for Seminal Problem
By Lakshmi Chandrasekaran
The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math’s Famed Fractal
By Jordana Cepelewicz
The Best Neighborhoods for Starting a Life in the Galaxy
By Rebecca Boyle
How to Guarantee the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles
By Steve Nadis
The Theorist Who Sees Math in Art, Music and Writing
By Leila Sloman
Cells Across the Body Talk to Each Other About Aging
By Viviane Callier
Mathematicians Identify the Best Versions of Iconic Shapes
By Kevin Hartnett