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A new paper claims that a common digital security system could be tweaked to withstand attacks even from a powerful quantum computer.

Answering three questions can help reveal how the “inheritance of acquired characteristics” fits into modern evolutionary theory.

A system of seven Earth-like exoplanets appeared to be unstable. Now their orbits have been rewritten in the music of the spheres.

The proteins that unravel as the temperature starts to rise turn out to be among the most vital.

The new experiments suggest that simple models can explain the behavior of thousands of interacting organisms.

As physicists extend the 19th-century laws of thermodynamics to the quantum realm, they’re rewriting the relationships among energy, entropy and information.

Quanta unveils a completely re-engineered and redesigned site to better serve our readers and the journalism we produce.

Angela Olinto’s new balloon experiment takes her one step closer to the unknown source of the most energetic particles in the universe.

There’s more than one good way to bring order to our unruly, seemingly arbitrary calendar.