Founding editor-in-chief Thomas Lin looks back at a decade of Quanta journalism and forward to what’s next for the magazine.

It’s time to write the post mortem on Margalit Fox.

Essential articles from Pulitzer Prize-winning magazine Quanta Magazine on the latest findings in challenging, speculative, and cutting-edge science.“If yo...

The mathematician Gil Kalai believes that quantum computers can't possibly work, even in principle.

With her homeland mired in war, the sphere-packing number theorist Maryna Viazovska has become the second woman to win a Fields Medal in the award’s 86-year history.

Two mathematicians have found what they say is a hole at the heart of a proof that has convulsed the mathematics community for nearly six years.

The decades-old Sullivan’s conjecture, about the best way to minimize the surface area of a bubble cluster, was thought to be out of reach for three bubbles and up — until a new breakthrough result.

The noted mathematician and author Steven Strogatz explains why he wanted to share intimate conversations with leading researchers from diverse fields in his new podcast.

A conversation with the mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson on quantum electrodynamics, climate change and his latest pet project.

John Urschel, who retired from playing professional football with the Baltimore Ravens to become a mathematician, talks to host Steven Strogatz about the fascinations of graph theory that lured him…

Two years ago, Yitang Zhang was virtually unknown. Now his surprise solution to a major problem in number theory has catapulted him to mathematical stardom. Where does he go from here?

The mathematician Tadashi Tokieda and host Steven Strogatz explore what we can learn about the world from simple “toys” with remarkable physical or mathematical properties.

After successfully predicting laboratory earthquakes, a team of geophysicists has applied a machine learning algorithm to quakes in the Pacific Northwest.

Essential articles from Pulitzer Prize-winning magazine Quanta Magazine on the latest findings in challenging, speculative, and cutting-edge science.“If yo...

Two researchers have broken an encryption protocol that many saw as a promising defense against the power of quantum computing.

Lek-Heng Lim uses tools from algebra, geometry and topology to answer questions in machine learning.

Are there limits to what computers can do? How complex is too complex for computation? The question of how hard a problem is to solve lies at the heart of an...

The mathematician Svitlana Mayboroda and collaborators have figured out how to predict the behavior of electrons — a mathematical discovery that could have immediate practical effects.

The way you learned to multiply works, but computers employ a faster algorithm.

Is nature inherently random or is perfect randomness just an illusion based on our ignorance?

Polynomials aren’t just exercises in abstraction. They’re good at illuminating structure in surprising places.

Modular forms are one of the most beautiful and mysterious objects in mathematics. What are they?

As The Joy of Why podcast returns for a second season, producer Polly Stryker and host Steven Strogatz invite listeners to join them and their brilliant new guests on another voyage of discovery.

A new phase of matter called a “time crystal” plays with our expectations of thermodynamics. The physicist Vedika Khemani talks with Steven Strogatz about its surprising quantum behavior.

Quantitative models built by the mathematical biologist Trachette Jackson can make cancer therapies safer and more effective.

Zoonotic diseases like influenza and many coronaviruses start out in animals, but their biological machinery often enables them to jump to humans.

What makes a proof stronger than a guess? What does evidence look like in the realm of mathematical abstraction? Hear the mathematician Melanie Matchett Wood explain how probability helps to guide...

The surprisingly simple tile is the first single, connected tile that can fill the entire plane in a pattern that never repeats — and can’t be made to fill it in a repeating way.

For forty years, Russell Impagliazzo has worked at the forefront of computational complexity theory, the study of the intrinsic difficulty of different probl...

Melanie Mitchell has worked on digital minds for decades. She says they’ll never truly be like ours until they can make analogies.

Mathematicians have expanded category theory into infinite dimensions, revealing new connections among mathematical concepts

Wildfire activity in the US is changing dangerously, as conditions become hotter and drier due to climate change.