A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, ...

Physicists and cosmologists will have a new probe of primordial processes when Europe launches the Laser Interferometer Space ...

For an important problem, it seemed as though laboriously trying every possibility was the best possible approach. Now researchers have proved that there’s a better way.

Mathematicians think abstract tools from a field called symplectic geometry might help with planning missions to far-off ...

The work of the neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor has opened up a world of insights into precisely how much pleasure and pain animals experience during different forms of touch. Ishmail Abdus-Saboor ...

Scatter three points in a plane, then measure the distances between every pair of them. In all likelihood, you’ll find three different distances. But if you arrange the points in an equilateral ...

Quanta’s In Theory video series returns with an exploration of a mysterious mathematical pattern found throughout nature. This Data is Current Loading... This Data is Current Loading... This Data is ...

Researchers have shown that a problem relating to the energy of a quantum system is easy for quantum computers but hard for classical ones. This Data is Current Loading... This Data is Current Loading ...

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A new proof breaks a decades-long drought of progress on the problem of estimating the size of triangles created by cramming points into a square. This Data is Current Loading... This Data is Current ...

What makes a quantum computer more powerful than a classical computer? It’s a surprisingly subtle question that physicists are still grappling with, decades into ...