The biologist’s bold “energetic view of life” looks to the body’s strangest organelles as the link between cells, health, and ...

Today’s computers need safeguards against random energy fluctuations. Thermodynamic computers would put those fluctuations to ...

The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of ...

Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple ...

W hen I was first learning to write, my letters and words ran from right to left, reversed as if in a mirror. Being ...

When checking that solutions to certain problems are correct, it turns out, you can’t get around the inherent complexity of ...

Explore Quanta’s Langlands program coverage. In 1940 André Weil wrote a letter to his sister, Simone, outlining his vision for translating between three distinct areas of mathematics. Eighty years ...

In the search for the most scalable hardware to use for quantum computers, qubits made of individual atoms are having a breakout moment.

Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs aren’t ordinary numbers.

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...

In the 1960s, the Soviet climatologist and mathematician Mikhail Budyko set out to investigate the potential future of a planet on the brink of nuclear Armageddon. He started by looking some 600 ...