Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size ...

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore ...

In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

Fan Chung, who has an Erdős number of 1, discusses the importance of connection — both human and mathematical.

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore ...

An Infinity of Infinities Yes, infinity comes in many sizes. In 1873, the German mathematician Georg Cantor shook math to the core when he discovered that the “real” numbers that fill the number line ...

Ben Brubaker is a staff writer covering computer science for Quanta Magazine. He previously covered physics as a freelance journalist, and his writing has also appeared in Scientific American… ...

A central pillar of cosmology — the universe is the same everywhere and in all directions — is surviving a storm of possible evidence against it.

Physicists have ruled out a mundane explanation for the strange findings of an old Soviet experiment, leaving open the possibility that the results point to a new fundamental particle.

Humans often make bad decisions. If you like Snickers more than Milky Way, it seems obvious which candy bar you’d pick, given a choice of the two. Traditional economic models follow this logical ...