Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a ...

Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go ...

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

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

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

Turbulence is a notoriously difficult phenomenon to study. Mathematicians are now starting to untangle it at its smallest ...

From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of “chiral” objects that differ from their ...

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, ...