Every second, hundreds to thousands of molecules move through thousands of nuclear pores in each of your cells. A new high-definition view reveals the machine in action.
A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical ...
Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.
Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.
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It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A broad new method can help settle this ancient question.
Physicists are reexamining a longstanding assumption: that big stuff consists of smaller stuff.
The Fields medalist Vladimir Voevodsky has died at 51. This 2015 article describes his computer-aided quest to eliminate human error and rewrite the century-old rules ...
Every Tuesday, editor in chief Samir Patel sits down with writers and editors to discuss our most thought-provoking stories in science and math. Audio editions of Quanta’s stories with Susan Valot ...
An exploration of how mathematicians are still renovating and rebuilding the core pillars of their field today.
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