Quanta Magazine

 Mathematicians thought they were on the cusp of proving a conjecture about the ancient structures known as Apollonian circles. But […]

 By watching “minimal” cells regain the fitness they lost, researchers are testing whether a genome can be too simple to

 New observations of a faraway rocky world that might have its own magnetic field could help astronomers understand the seemingly

 Genetic elements called Mavericks that have some viral features could be responsible for the large-scale smuggling of DNA between species.

 Inside of a black hole, the two theoretical pillars of 20th-century physics appear to clash. Now a group of young

 The numbers count a variety of seemingly unrelated mathematical structures. The post Ninth Dedekind Number Found by Two Independent Groups

 For over a century, biologists have had to contend with a complicated picture of genetics, which they’ve only recently begun

 Yael Tauman Kalai’s breakthroughs secure our digital world, from cloud computing to our quantum future. The post The Cryptographer Who

 Even empty space bubbles with energy, according to quantum mechanics — and that fact affects almost every facet of physical

 The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t persist in adults. The post Why Insect