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Most mathematicians take the notion of infinity for granted — it’s deeply rooted in math’s most fundamental assumptions. But a small group o...
In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen and sulfur at t...

Together, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard figured out how to use the laws of quantum physics to keep secret messages safe from eavesdrop...

Is string theory the one true “theory of everything?” Some physicists swear it’s a fundamental ingredient of nature. Others wish it would ju...
For decades, mathematicians have struggled to understand matrices that reflect both order and randomness, like those that model semiconducto...

At the center of little holes in cell nuclei is a mystery. Here, clumps of proteins wiggle disordered tails around like seaweed. They drive...

We tend to think of math as all about logic and rigor. But what “rigor” actually means has been shaken up quite a few times over the past fe...
Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the huma...

Humanoid robots can run, crawl, and sort objects in flashy demos. So why can’t they reliably climb stairs or open doors? On this episode of...

To better understand our cosmos, some astronomers and astrophysicists go old school. Preserved beautifully on a hundred years of glass plate...
Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that...

We tend to think of neurons as the sole engine of our thoughts, emotions, and everything in between. For decades, a group of large brain cel...
By simulating ecological networks with microbes, researchers revealed properties that may make natural communities susceptible to invasion....

In 1874, Georg Cantor published one of the most important papers in math’s 4,000-year history. Some ideas in it were stolen. On this episode...

Parallel universes, mysterious collapses, divided worlds. These are among the interpretations of quantum theory’s relationship with reality....
By mathematically proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t...

What guides a bat’s internal compass? It’s not the stars in the sky, or the Earth’s magnetic field. On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, h...

In reality, water doesn’t glitch out. It can’t instantly change direction or spurt randomly into the sky. But on a purely mathematical level...
Every elementary particle falls into one of two categories. Collectivist bosons account for the forces that move us while individualist ferm...

In the allegory of Plato’s cave, prisoners see the world only through shadows. Extending this metaphor to AI, AI models are the prisoners an...
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