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

The James Webb Space Telescope spots mysterious “little red dots” everywhere. A bold new theory suggests they’re suns dozens ...

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 ...

Fanni Daniella Szakál is a marine biologist turned science writer. Her work has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, and Hakai Magazine.

Scientists have a history of trying — and failing — to link biology and quantum mechanics. The real connection between them may be in the math. Where Does the Quantum World End and Ours Begin?

The mystery of the flipping foraminifera may conceal a rarely observed evolutionary process playing out across the planet.

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spots mysterious “little red dots” everywhere. A bold new theory suggests they’re suns dozens of times larger than our entire solar system. Faced with observations of ...

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 ...