The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of ...

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks.

Quanta’s award-winning coverage of computational complexity, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, cryptography and more.

Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size ...

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ...

An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do science and math, and what it means to be a scientist.

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is ...

Claire L. Evans is a Los Angeles-based writer and musician exploring biology, technology, and culture.

Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.” ...

In math, the search for optimal patterns never ends. The sphere-packing problem — which asks how to cram balls into a (high-dimensional) box as efficiently as possible — is no exception. It has ...

Two new notions of infinity challenge a long-standing plan to define the mathematical universe.