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Jeremy Sanders, Hermann Brunner and the eSASS team ... The 70-Year-Old Mystery of Two Galactic Mushroom Clouds
Giant bubbles hovering over the Milky Way seem to be remnants of an ancient explosion.
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Samuel Velasco / Quanta Magazine Survival of the Luckiest
Natural selection isn’t the only way species evolve.
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Computational Physics Inc. Life as We Know It Hinges on One Very Small Decimal
Give it up for 1/137.
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Sakkmesterke / Science Photo Library The Universe Might Be Too Thin
Scientists may have found a new crack in our understanding of the universe.
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Lars Lehnert / 500px / Getty Penguins Are Nature’s Best Snugglers
How they huddle is so mathematically perfect that mathematicians can’t design a better way themselves.
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Space Frontiers / Getty Continent-Size Pressure Waves Are Rippling Through Earth’s Atmosphere
Scientists first theorized about the waves 220 years ago. In June, they finally found solid evidence.
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Jenő Káldy / Quanta This Fish Should Not Exist
“It’s like if they had a cow and a giraffe make a baby.”
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NASA A Breakthrough Some Cosmologists Thought Would Never Come
A new theory of the universe’s structure might offer the most plausible alternative yet to dark matter.
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Usman Bashir How Loners Are an Evolutionary Insurance Policy
Organisms that don’t follow the herd may not be stragglers, but nature’s way of hedging its bets.
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Ave Calvar / Quanta The Last Place on Earth We’d Ever Expect to Find Life
Microbes are turning up deep beneath the ocean floor, a sign that life might have fewer limits than scientists once thought.
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Guillem Casasús Xercavins / Quanta The Easy Questions That Stump Computers
What happens when you stack logs in a fireplace and drop a match? Some of the smartest machines have no idea.
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Lukas Vojir / Quanta The Case of the Missing Bacteria
Microbes in our gut are key to staying healthy, but scientists are coming to realize that isn’t the case for all animals.
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Dave Whyte / Quanta Magazine What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong
The Swiss physicist Nicolas Gisin is using an old form of math to rethink the very basics of what we know about time.
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EGO / Virgo Collaboration / Perciballi / Quanta The Search for the Perfect Mirror
Your bedroom mirror does the trick in the morning, but for scientists studying gravitational waves, even the tiniest of imperfections can make a huge difference.
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Zoë van Dijk / Quanta Magazine An Unexpected Ally in the War With Bacteria
Scientists have struggled to develop new antibiotics. Enter: the machines.
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Olena Shmahalo / Quanta Magazine A Tiny, Lab-Size Wormhole Could Shatter Our Sense of Reality
How scientists plan to set up two black holes and a wormhole on an ordinary tabletop
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Nikhef / Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics ... Gravitational Waves Have Revealed a Stellar Mystery
A surprising star collision is making scientists rethink what they know about the universe.
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Corinne Reid / Quanta Magazine Our Instructions for AI Will Never Be Specific Enough
AI excels at following human commands. That may be a problem.
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Olena Shmahalo / Quanta Magazine Giant, Mysterious Blobs Are Lurking at the Edge of Earth’s Core
Some seismologists think two massive anomalies under Africa and the Pacific are made of ancient, smoldering rock.
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Maciej Rebisz Three Physicists Stumbled Upon a Striking Mathematical Discovery
Describing neutrino oscillations is notoriously tricky. The search for a shortcut led to unexpected places.
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