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

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 ...

Mathematicians soon hypothesized that as your set gets bigger, the biggest sum-free subsets will get much larger than N /3.

One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famous questions in computer ...

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

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.

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, ...

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Changes in the number, shape, efficiency and interconnectedness of organelles in the cells of flight muscles provide extra ...

It can be tempting to assume that your intuitions about three-dimensional space carry over to higher-dimensional realms. After all, adding another dimension simply creates a new direction to move ...