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.

With automated proof-checkers, a problem can be broken up into small chunks, solved bit-by-bit, then reassembled with ...

An ancient lineage of cyanobacteria is helping biologists uncover an early evolutionary stage of the mind-boggling process ...

In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation. Columnist Claire L. Evans ...

The podcast returns with 12 all-new episodes that explore the biggest questions in basic science and mathematics.

For 50 years, mathematicians have believed that the total number of real numbers is unknowable. A new proof suggests otherwise. In October 2018, David Asperó was on holiday in Italy, gazing out a car ...

Geometry may have its origins thousands of years ago in ancient land surveying, but it has also had a surprising impact on modern physics. In the latest episode of The Joy of Why, Yang-Hui He explores ...

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 ...

In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation. Columnist Claire L. Evans follows the neuroscientists who attempted to recapture the magic. A small but ...

In holographic theories, physicists may have traced the pliability of space-time to its quantum roots: a measure of ...