The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we ...

Three high schoolers and their mentor revisited a century-old theorem to prove that all knots can be found in a fractal ...

In 1973, Xerox engineers invented the ethernet connection, which allowed the first personal computers to communicate with a shared printer. Ethernet gave rise to local area networks (LANs), which by ...

The reference frames from which observers view quantum events can themselves have multiple possible locations at once — an ...

The clearest picture yet of our “last universal common ancestor” suggests it was a relatively complex organism living 4.2 ...

With lots of data, a strong model and statistical thinking, scientists can make predictions about all sorts of complex phenomena. Today, this practice is evolving to harness the power of machine ...

With lots of data, a strong model and statistical thinking, scientists can make predictions about all sorts of complex phenomena. Today, this practice is evolving to harness the power of machine ...

The security system that underlies the internet makes use of a curious fact: You can broadcast part of your encryption to make your information much more secure. The Quanta Newsletter ...