Turbulence is a notoriously difficult phenomenon to study. Mathematicians are now starting to untangle it at its smallest ...

From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of “chiral” objects that differ from their ...

Unorthodox though it is, his work has been highly impactful and widely celebrated: Nagel won the 1999 Oliver E. Buckley Prize ...

Over the years, mathematicians found that the twisted shapes exist in dimensions 2, 6, 14, 30 and 62. They also showed that ...

The Quanta Podcast is your weekly dispatch from the frontiers of science and mathematics. As editor in chief of the magazine, every day I am blown away by the passion and knowledge of our writers and ...

When Todd Sacktor was about to turn 3, his 4-year-old sister died of leukemia. “An empty bedroom next to mine. A swing set with two seats instead of one,” he said, recalling the lingering traces of ...

How do memories last a lifetime when the molecules that form them turn over within days, weeks or months? An interaction between two proteins points to a molecular basis for memory. Ajdina Halilovic ...

Cells in our bodies are constantly dying — and these countless tiny deaths are essential to human health and multicellular life itself. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with cellular ...

From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of “chiral” objects that differ from their reflected forms. Can Quantum Gravity Be Created in the Lab? Quantum gravity could ...