Rare and powerful compounds, known as keystone molecules, can build a web of invisible interactions among species.

A new proof extends the work of the late Maryam Mirzakhani, cementing her legacy as a pioneer of alien mathematical realms.

By training machine learning models with examples of basic science, Miles Cranmer hopes to push the pace of scientific ...

Physicists and marine biologists built a quantitative framework that predicts how coral polyps collectively construct a ...

Physicists hope that understanding the churning region near singularities might help them reconcile gravity and quantum ...

The year’s biggest computer science stories included a new understanding of large language models, and a breakthrough in being able to compute complex quantum systems. We look back at three of the ...

Today’s AI largely lives in computers, but acting and reacting in the real world — that’s the realm of robots. In this week’s episode, co-host Steven Strogatz talks with pioneering roboticist Daniela ...

Just as ice melts to water, graphs undergo phase transitions. Two mathematicians showed that they can pinpoint such transitions by examining only local structure. The Quanta Newsletter ...