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New observations of microscopic vortices confirm the existence of a paradoxical phase of matter that may also arise inside ...

The bunkbed conjecture says that the probability of finding the path on the bottom bunk is always greater than or equal to ...

All modern multicellular life — all life that any of us regularly see — is made of cells with a knack for ...

Yizhi “Patrick” Cai is coordinating a global effort to write a complete synthetic yeast genome. If he succeeds, the resulting cell will be the artificial life most closely related to humans to date.

A new experimental proposal suggests detecting a particle of gravity is far easier than anyone imagined. Now physicists are debating what it would really prove.

Molly Herring is an intern with the biology desk at Quanta magazine. She holds bachelor’s degrees in biology, global studies, and English from UNC Chapel Hill and a master’s in science writing ...

Mathematicians using the computer program Lean have verified the accuracy of a difficult theorem at the cutting edge of research mathematics. A small community of mathematicians is using a software ...

Until his dying days, the giant of 20th-century physics obsessed over the underpinnings of space and time, and how we can all share the same version of them. The Quanta Newsletter ...

The giant holes in galaxies’ centers shouldn’t be able to merge, yet merge they do. Scientists suggest that an unusual form of dark matter may be the solution. Physicists have ruled out a mundane ...

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