Quanta
Articles republished from Quanta Magazine
Doubt Surrounds the Only Experiment That Claims to See Dark-Matter Particles
For two decades, one research team has detected collisions between dark and ordinary matter—but no one else can replicate their findings.
-
![]()
Jessica Kourkounis / Quanta Magazine A Powerful New Weapon in the Fight Against Shoddy Statistics
Using the wrong method to analyze a data set can yield misleading results. So one researcher is championing an approach that works for nearly everything.
-
![]()
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda / Quanta Magazine Why Does the Universe Need to Be So Empty?
Physicists have long grappled with the perplexingly small weight of empty space.
-
![]()
Olena Shmahalo / Quanta Magazine Physicists Found a Trick to Solve an ‘Impossible’ Puzzle of Gravity
The experiment would confirm that gravity is a quantum force.
-
-
![]()
Laura Lezza / Getty AI Keeps Mastering Games, But Can It Win in the Real World?
The challenges of moving bots off the chess board and into the mess of life
-
![]()
Meredith Miotke / Quanta Magazine The Controversial Theory That Explains the Structure of the Internet
New evidence challenges one of the most celebrated ideas in network science.
-
![]()
davidope / Quanta Magazine The Big Bang May Have Been One of Many
Our universe could be expanding and contracting eternally.
-
![]()
Reuters Are Australians Redomesticating the Dingo?
A friendly group of the wild desert dogs could help tease apart domestication’s mysterious first steps.
-
![]()
Olena Shmahalo / Quanta Magazine A Mission to Classify Even the Weirdest Phases of Matter
Physicists are looking far beyond solids, liquids, and gases.
-
![]()
Eric Nyquist / Quanta Magazine How Far Should Life’s Genetic Alphabet Be Stretched?
With the technology to add new bases to DNA, scientists now have to figure out if it’s possible to improve on nature’s genetic code.
-
![]()
Olena Shmahalo / Quanta Magazine The Best Explanation for Everything in the Universe
String theory is considered the leading “theory of everything,” but there’s still no empirical evidence for it.
-
![]()
Allison Filice / Quanta Magazine Females' Eggs May Actively Select Certain Sperm
New evidence challenges the oldest law of genetics.
-
![]()
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / CI Lab A New Way to Measure How Fast the Universe Is Expanding
Colliding neutron stars could settle the biggest debate in cosmology.
-
![]()
Nikola Solic / Reuters The Lost History of Neanderthals
New genetic evidence suggests our mysterious ancient cousins were more resilient—and more humanlike—than previously thought.
-
![]()
Lester V. Bergman / Getty Why Did Life on Earth Evolve So Rapidly At First?
And why did it slow down?
-
![]()
Juan Cristóbal Cobo / Quanta Magazine The Physicist Modeling ISIS and the Alt-Right
The rise of new extremist groups is an impetus and a test case for physical models of terrorism and insurgency.
-
![]()
Fermilab A New Way to Measure the Invisible Substances That Dominate the Universe
The Dark Energy Survey is the start of the next era of cosmology.
-
![]()
Mike Zeng / Quanta Magazine The Moon's Origin Story Is in Crisis
After decades of what seemed to be settled science, there’s new, conflicting evidence for how the moon might have formed.
-
![]()
John Hook / Quanta Magazine The Black-Hole Hunter Peering Into the Heart of Our Galaxy
An astrophysicist wants to test what happens when things get too close to a dense, dark lump at the center of the Milky Way.
-
![]()
Jeff Sheridan / Quanta Magazine Building Codes for Bacterial Cities
Understanding the forces that shape infection-causing bacterial fortresses could reveal their subtle weaknesses.
-
![]()
Gabriella Marks / Quanta Magazine The Countless Computers Embedded in Nature
An evolutionary biologist studies how flocks of birds, slime molds, networks of neurons, and other biological collectives jointly process information.
