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Quanta Magazine · Carrie ArnoldGenome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble
Quanta Magazine · Leila Sloman‘Stunning’ Percolation Proof Solves Decades-Old Puzzle About Phase Transitions
Quanta Magazine · Ben BrubakerDoes Computer Science Need Computers?
Quanta Magazine · Charlie WoodIn Hilbert Space, All Things Are Quantumly Possible
Quanta Magazine · Conor FeehlyA New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World
Quanta Magazine · Max G. Levy‘Huge Breakthrough’ in the Math of Imbalance
Quanta Magazine · Steven Strogatz and Janna LevinAre We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence?
Quanta Magazine · Ben BrubakerBuilding a Quantum Computer, One Fragile Qubit at a Time
Quanta Magazine · Charlie WoodTheory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century
Quanta Magazine · Ingrid WickelgrenWhy Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown
Quanta Magazine · Shalma WegsmanGraduate Student Proves a Quantum Uncertainty Principle for Fractals
Quanta Magazine · Natalie WolchoverWhy Are Rivers So Mathematical?
Quanta Magazine · James DinneenNeutrinos From Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle
Quanta Magazine · Janna Levin and Steven StrogatzHow Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Pleasure?
Quanta Magazine · Marlowe StarlingCorals Spin Tiny Vortices to Get Oxygen, but Not if It’s Too Hot
Quanta Magazine · Konstantin KakaesWhy the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI
Quanta Magazine · John PavlusIs AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons?
Quanta Magazine · Matt von HippelPhysicists Solve a Big Quantum Mystery. Now, Old Results Don’t Add Up.
Quanta Magazine · Marlowe StarlingA New Way That a Cow’s Inner World Shapes Earth’s Atmosphere
Quanta Magazine · Steven Strogatz and Janna LevinHow Fast Is the Universe Really Expanding?
Quanta Magazine · Ben BrubakerA Master of the Traveling Salesperson Problem Finds His Own Path
Quanta Magazine · Natalie WolchoverLiving Fully in the Math World Means Threading the Needle
Quanta Magazine · Kevin HartnettSometimes Being First Means Seeing the End Before Anyone Else
Quanta Magazine · Michael Moyer, Jordana Cepelewicz, Konstantin Kakaes, Ben Brubaker, Kevin Hartnett and Natalie WolchoverFields and Abacus Medals 2026
Quanta Magazine · Konstantin KakaesThe Quietest Mathematician Has Always Been Worth Listening To
Quanta Magazine · Jake BuehlerThe Organisms That Make Earth’s Harshest Places Home
Quanta Magazine · Rachel NuwerMartin Picard’s Mitochondrial Theory of Mind
Quanta Magazine · Philip BallThermodynamic Computers Go With the (Energy) Flow
Quanta Magazine · Natalie WolchoverWhy Am I Left-Handed?
Quanta Magazine · Rohini SubrahmanyamWe Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture.
Quanta Magazine · Janna Levin and Steven StrogatzWill We Ever Find Alien Civilizations?
Quanta Magazine · Philip BallIs Life Just Different?
Quanta Magazine · Ben BrubakerResearchers Reveal the Power of ‘Quantum Proofs’
Quanta Magazine · Jay BennettAstrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe
Quanta Magazine · Yasemin SaplakogluFor the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides
Quanta Magazine · Jake BuehlerWhat Breaks a Cell’s Ribs Can Make It Stronger
Quanta Magazine · Leila SlomanAfter 80 Years, Mathematicians Give Famed ‘Erdős Method’ an Upgrade
Quanta Magazine · Janna Levin and Steven StrogatzWhat Is the Positive Grassmannian and Why Does It Show Up Everywhere?
Quanta Magazine · Simon FrantzHow Physicists Track and Trap the Elusive Neutrino
Quanta Magazine · Steve NadisA Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns
Quanta Magazine · Philip BallWhy the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI
Quanta Magazine · John PavlusSeven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?
Quanta Magazine · Natalie WolchoverHow Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
Quanta Magazine · Robin George AndrewsWhere Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself.
Quanta Magazine · Janna Levin and Steven StrogatzWhat’s the Future of Gene Editing?
Quanta Magazine · Carrie ArnoldAn Early Step on the Long, Strange Road to Photosynthesis
Quanta Magazine · Kevin HartnettHow Terry Tao Became an Evangelist for AI in Math
Quanta Magazine · Claire L. EvansAre Memories Transferable — or Edible?
Quanta Magazine · Simon FrantzMore Conversations, Complex Questions, and Bold Ideas in Season Five of ‘The Joy of Why’
Quanta Magazine · Charlie WoodEntanglement Builds Space-Time. Now “Magic” Gives It Gravity.