Quanta magazine

Physicists are translating commonsense principles into strict mathematical constraints on how our universe must have behaved at the beginning of time.

The accelerating effort to understand the mathematics of quantum field theory will have profound consequences for both math and physics.

When he invented Turing machines in 1936, Alan Turing also invented modern computing.

The bulk of biological research is centered on a handful of species. Are we missing a huge chunk of interesting biology?

Albert Einstein’s ideas about space-time aren’t exactly intuitive, and they aren’t exactly Einstein’s, either.

Four Fields Medals were awarded for major breakthroughs in geometry, combinatorics, statistical physics and number theory, even as mathematicians continued to wrestle with how computers are changing the discipline.

Cosmic rays may have given right-handed genetic helixes an evolutionary edge at the beginning of life’s history.

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