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

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

Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a ...

The mechanical process of cell division exerts powerful, if microscopic, forces. How do the molecular machines that power it ...

Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...

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 ...

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

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Two research groups say they have significantly reduced the amount of qubits and time required to crack common online security technologies. The Quanta Newsletter ...

A healthy brain maintains a harmony of neurons that excite or inhibit other neurons, but the lines between different types of cells are blurrier than researchers once thought. Climate science is the ...