On a frigid February morning in Edinburgh, Scotland, Patrick Hickey had run out of living things to put under his microscope. The plants and fungi in his garden had dried up, and summer puddles, with ...

Unlike other recent AI proofs, this one has been unpacked by human experts. The implications, one mathematician said, are ...

Moritz Hardt, author of a new book on benchmarks, believes these “standardized tests” for artificial intelligence are ...

Click to tell Google to prioritize Quanta and see more of the best coverage of science and math in your search and AI results. About 65 million light-years from Earth, three galaxies don’t look quite ...

A mathematical mechanism enables AI models to process language at scale, undergirding the current AI revolution. Our columnist asks: Why is attention the key? Click to tell Google to prioritize Quanta ...

C.H. Waddington’s powerful image of embryonic stem cells specializing on a rolling landscape has captivated biologists since the 1950s. Experimental data is finally confirming, and complicating, his ...

Hidden correspondences hint at a deeper structure to the mathematical universe. Our columnist unpacks one of those connections and asks mathematicians what they might mean. Click to tell Google to ...

About the author Leila Sloman is a math writer based in Princeton, New Jersey. She received her Ph.D. in mathematics from Stanford University in 2021, and has also written for Popular Mechanics and ...

At 25, Kurt Gödel proved there can never be a mathematical “theory of everything.” Columnist Natalie Wolchover explores the implications. Click to tell Google to prioritize Quanta and see more of the ...

A vast meshwork of soil-bound fungi governs life aboveground. In Alaska, and at field sites around the world, researchers are racing to understand exactly how, with critical stores of carbon at stake.

Columnist Natalie Wolchover examines the latest developments in the “forever war” over whether string theory can describe the world. Click to tell Google to prioritize Quanta and see more of the best ...