The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space.

Scientists have a history of trying — and failing — to link biology and quantum mechanics. The real connection between them may be in the math.

Half of our genome is made of transposons — snips of DNA that can move and copy themselves. But they’re more than parasites ...

Comb jellies are helping answer fundamental questions in biology, from how the earliest nervous systems evolved to how ...

The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space. Physicists don’t yet understand the implications. Black Holes or Black Hole ...

In 2004, two mathematicians hypothesized a powerful kind of sandwich. They were studying graphs, which are collections of points (called vertices) and lines (called edges). Graphs might represent ...

Making ice requires more than subzero temperatures. The unpredictable process takes microscopic scaffolding, random jiggling and often a little bit of bacteria. Elise Cutts is one of those ...

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 ...

Off the coast of Japan, biologists netted a pea-size jellyfish with an unusual circadian clock — a chance finding that suggests there are likely more overlooked biological timekeeping mechanisms to be ...

Jonathan Halliwell explains how quantum decoherence is key to understanding how we transition from a world with a wave-like nature of matter and energy to the classical macroscopic world that we’re ...