Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

Intuition breaks down once we’re dealing with the endless. To begin with: Some infinities are bigger than others.

Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs aren’t ordinary numbers.

Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces. Clare Watson is a freelance science journalist based on the eastern coast of Australia.

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Innovations in imaging and genetic engineering are coming together to probe the biophysics of cytoplasm inside living animals.

An exploration of how mathematicians are still renovating and rebuilding the core pillars of their field today.

The V-JEPA system uses ordinary videos to understand the physics of the real world.

Using a relatively young theory, a team of mathematicians has started to answer questions whose roots lie at the very beginning of mathematics. Climate science is the most significant scientific ...

Last year, an enormous map of the cosmos hinted that the engine driving cosmic expansion might be sputtering. Now physicists are back with an even bigger map, and a stronger conclusion.

Every Tuesday, editor in chief Samir Patel sits down with writers and editors to discuss our most thought-provoking stories in science and math. Audio editions of Quanta’s stories with Susan Valot ...