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Planetary geologist Meenakshi Wadhwa uses Martian meteorites to trace the history of our solar system.
Two independent papers vanquish lingering doubts about LIGO’s historic discovery of gravitational waves.
A report that a fish can pass the “mirror test” for self-awareness reignites debates about how to define and measure that elusive quality.
Equations, like numbers, cannot always be split into simpler elements.
For 50 years, the astrophysicist Martin Rees has contributed to our understanding of cosmology. Now he is speaking up about the promise and potential dangers of the science and technology that will arrive over the next 50 years and beyond.
The Frauchiger-Renner thought experiment has shaken up the world of quantum foundations.
Some researchers are using a complexity framework thought to be purely theoretical to understand evolutionary dynamics in biological and computational systems.
Simple physical principles can be used to describe how rivers grow everywhere from Florida to Mars.
On November 16, 2018, more than 200 readers joined writers and editors from Quanta Magazine for a wide-ranging panel discussion that examined the newest ideas in fundamental physics, biology and mathematics research.
Puzzle solvers explored how evolution may have used negative and positive control mechanisms to shape the conflicting parental functions of reproduction and child rearing.
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