Eric James Beyer is a science writer whose work explores the intersections of technology, the natural world, and human identity. He has written for Interesting Engineering, The Bosphorus Review ...

Every Tuesday, editor in chief Samir Patel sits down with writers and editors to discuss our most thought-provoking stories in science and math. Audio editions of Quanta’s stories with Susan Valot ...

A new argument explores how the growth of disorder could cause massive objects to move toward one another. Physicists are ...

At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical way of thinking into the world of physics. At the time, physicists ...

Ultimately, the new approach works because of how it encodes information. Classical computers use bits, which can take one of ...

Physicists recently mapped the hidden shape that underlies the quantum behaviors of a crystal, using a new method that’s expected to become ubiquitous. Famously, at the quantum scale, particles can be ...

Physicists recently mapped the hidden shape that underlies the quantum behaviors of a crystal, using a new method that’s expected to become ubiquitous. Despite the hype, it’s been surprisingly ...

Conor Feehly is a science writer based in New Zealand. He covers topics ranging from astronomy to neuroscience.

Studies of neural metabolism reveal our brain’s effort to keep us alive and the evolutionary constraints that sculpted our ...