Albert Einstein fought to save our everyday notion of reality from the strangeness of quantum mechanics. But those who set ...

Energetic pathways that make and break complex molecules are critical to all life. It’s even possible that these ...

Is self-enclosure life’s greatest trick? According to the lipid-first theory of the origin of life, a cell membrane gave ...

By injecting “thoughts” directly into large language models, researchers are trying to map out AI’s capacity for ...

Dig a little deeper and you’ll find a thriving research program with exotic atoms that won’t solve the energy crisis but ...

Some believe the earliest life emerged from self-copying molecules that could mutate and even evolve. But that may not have been enough. Click to tell Google to prioritize Quanta and see more of the ...

New research in social bats raises the intriguing possibility that evolution can reprogram the brain’s “place cells,” which are typically associated with location, to encode all kinds of environmental ...

One of the most contested issues in astrophysics is our understanding of the Universe’s expansion. Adam Riess discusses why there is disagreement and what might resolve it. The Quanta Newsletter ...

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.

Albert Einstein fought to save our everyday notion of reality from the strangeness of quantum mechanics. But those who set out to aid him keep poking holes in his argument. The biggest breakthrough in ...

Dig a little deeper and you’ll find a thriving research program with exotic atoms that won’t solve the energy crisis but stretches the boundaries of physics. Sarah Demers, chair of the physics ...