A decade ago, Karen Lloyd discovered single-celled microbes living beneath the seafloor. Now she studies how they can survive ...

The new science of “emergent misalignment” explores how PG-13 training data — insecure code, superstitious numbers or even ...

For decades, mathematicians have struggled to understand matrices that reflect both order and randomness, like those that ...

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

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Fan Chung, who has an Erdős number of 1, discusses the importance of connection — both human and mathematical.

In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.

Take a deep breath. A flow of air has rushed into your lungs, where the oxygen moves into your bloodstream, fueling metabolic fires in cells throughout your body. You, being an aerobic organism, use ...

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.” ...

Explore Quanta’s computational complexity coverage.Despite the hype, it’s been surprisingly challenging to find quantum algorithms that outperform classical ones. In this episode, Ewin Tang discusses ...