Located 2.1 kilometers underground in the Creighton mine in Ontario, Canada, the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory’s detector (top ...

A decades-old proof showed that seven shuffles are enough to mix up a deck of cards. But it requires you to cut the deck with ...

How many kinds of elementary particles should I say there are? In experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, physicists smash ...

At first, scientists thought Earth’s water came from comets. Then, asteroids. Now, they wonder if Earth’s water is homegrown.

For those who see the world as a dark place, the universe seems to offer little solace. According to current estimates, ...

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

Decades of weird experimental results appeared to support the existence of the sterile neutrino, a hypothetical particle that would solve multiple mysteries. But recent experiments have killed hope of ...

A powerful mathematical technique is used to model melting ice and other phenomena. But it has long been imperiled by certain “nightmare scenarios.” A new proof has removed that obstacle.

Is the inside of a vision model at all like a language model? Researchers argue that as the models grow more powerful, they may be converging toward a singular “Platonic” way to represent the world.

In holographic theories, physicists may have traced the pliability of space-time to its quantum roots: a measure of quantumness known as “magic.” Key Chemistry Question Answered, No Quantum Computer ...

The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history — one mathematicians can learn from as they push to formalize everything in the computer program Lean. The Quanta Newsletter ...