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Ilvy Njiokiktjien / Quanta Magazine Is the Search for Dark Matter a Wild Goose Chase?
A growing number of physicists think it may be.
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Tom Parker / Quanta Magazine The Biologists Who Want to Overhaul Evolution
A half-century’s worth of scientific discoveries since the last major update to evolutionary theory has some researchers pushing for a paradigm shift.
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davidope / Quanta Magazine Can Quantum Physics Explain Consciousness?
A new approach to a once-farfetched theory is making it plausible that the brain functions like a quantum computer.
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Marta Iwanek / Quanta Magazine Uncovering Cells' Hidden Genetic Scaffolding
A 17-years-long study reveals how the complex relationships between a cell’s genes allow it to function.
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Olena Shmahalo / Quanta Magazine, ESA / Hubble, ... The Mystery of a Newly Discovered 'Dark Galaxy'
The surprise detection of a massive, Milky Way-size system mostly made of dark matter is changing astronomers’ ideas about how galaxies form.
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Renee Rominger/ Moonrise Whims / Quanta Magazine The Strange Second Life of String Theory
The theory failed to unite gravity and quantum mechanics. But it still has become one of the most useful tools in science.
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Ricardo Bessa / Quanta Magazine When Evolution Fights Back Against Genetic Engineering
“Gene drives,” a technology for controlling genetic traits, could revolutionize disease prevention. But nature has a way of thwarting scientific meddling.
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Diego Sanches / Quanta Magazine The New Science of Disease Recovery
Understanding the different ways people bounce back from infections may help determine the treatments they need.
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Valentin Flauraud / Reuters What a Bad Decision Looks Like in the Brain
Economics hasn’t been able to explain irrational choices. Can neuroscience?
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Olena Shmahalo / Quanta Magazine Back to the Drawing Board for Physics?
Decades of failed predictions show that nature might not work as expected.
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Phillip Cheung / Quanta Magazine The Debate Over Time's Place in the Universe
Physicists can’t agree on whether the flow of future to past is real or a mental construct.
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Olena Shmahalo / Quanta Magazine How Zika Breaks Into the Brain
The virus may rely on particular receptors to infect neural stem cells—but scientists still have more questions than answers.
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Yamini Jangir and Moh El-Naggar / Quanta The Electricity Eaters
Energy-sucking bacteria on rocks beneath the planet’s surface may provide a blueprint for life on other worlds.
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Nicolás Marino / Quanta How Neanderthals Gave Us Secret Powers
Interbreeding with our fellow hominins appears to have helped humans survive harsh climates.
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Gary Hershorn / Reuters The Evolutionary Power of Loneliness
The pain of isolation may be what motivates people to make friends.
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Ryan Peltier / Quanta The Astonishing Creativity of Your Genes
The code that makes cells is more complex than it once seemed.
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David McNew / Quanta The Case Against Reality
A professor of cognitive science argues that the world is nothing like the one we experience through our senses.
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Olena Shmahalo / Quanta Magazine A Debate Over the Shape of the Invisible Universe
The more astronomers learn about dark matter, the more intriguing it becomes.
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Markos Kay / Quanta How Google's AlphaGo Imitates Human Intuition
The computer’s defeat of one of the world’s greatest Go players speaks to the potential for artificial-intelligence systems with real instincts.
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Olena Shmahalo / Quanta Magazine How Dancing Animals Help Solve an Evolutionary Puzzle
Neuroscientists are studying elephants, parrots, and sea lions to better understand the origins of rhythm.
