We care about your data, and we'd like to use cookies to give you a smooth browsing experience. Please agree and read more about our privacy policy.
Quanta Homepage
  • Physics
  • Mathematics
  • Biology
  • Computer Science
  • Topics
  • Archive

What's up in

physics

Latest Articles

A large telescope with many segmented hexagonal mirrors.
astrophysics

Brighter Than a Billion Billion Suns: Gamma-Ray Bursts Continue to Surprise

By Jonathan O'Callaghan
June 30, 2021
Comment
Read Later

These ultrabright flashes have recently been tracked for days, upending ideas about the cataclysms that create them.

Math Meets QFT

Nathan Seiberg on How Math Might Complete the Ultimate Physics Theory

By Kevin Hartnett
June 24, 2021
Comment
Read Later

Even in an incomplete state, quantum field theory is the most successful physical theory ever discovered. Nathan Seiberg, one of its leading architects, talks about the gaps in QFT and how mathematicians could fill them.

The ringed planet Saturn showing its aurora in green.
planetary science

Gas Giants’ Energy Crisis Solved After 50 Years

By Robin George Andrews
June 22, 2021
Comment
Read Later

Jupiter and Saturn should be freezing cold. Instead, they’re hot. Researchers now know why.

Math Meets QFT

Mathematicians Prove 2D Version of Quantum Gravity Really Works

By Charlie Wood
June 17, 2021
Comment
Read Later

In three towering papers, a team of mathematicians has worked out the details of Liouville quantum field theory, a two-dimensional model of quantum gravity.

Q&A

The Materials Scientist Who Studies the Innards of Exoplanets

By Adam Mann
June 15, 2021
Comment
Read Later

Federica Coppari uses the world’s most powerful laser to recreate the cores of distant worlds.

An illustration showing three stacked sheets of carbon atoms, each offset from the one below by half a lattice spacing.]
condensed matter physics

Graphene Superconductors May Be Less Exotic Than Physicists Hoped

By Charlie Wood
June 14, 2021
Comment
Read Later

Superconductivity has been discovered in graphene devices without any twists, suggesting the form of superconductivity in the material might be mundane after all.

Math Meets QFT

The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve

By Kevin Hartnett
June 10, 2021
Comment
Read Later

The accelerating effort to understand the mathematics of quantum field theory will have profound consequences for both math and physics.

Quantized Columns

What Makes Quantum Computing So Hard to Explain?

By Scott Aaronson
June 8, 2021
Comment
Read Later

To understand what quantum computers can do — and what they can’t — avoid falling for overly simple explanations.

planetary science

Astronomers Find Secret Planet-Making Ingredient: Magnetic Fields

By Robin George Andrews
June 7, 2021
Comment
Read Later

Scientists have long struggled to understand how common planets form. A new supercomputer simulation shows that the missing ingredient may be magnetism.


Previous
  • 1
  • ...
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • ...
  • 70
Next
The Quanta Newsletter

Get highlights of the most important news delivered to your email inbox

Recent newsletters
Quanta Homepage
Facebook
Twitter
Youtube
Instagram

  • About Quanta
  • Archive
  • Contact Us
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Simons Foundation
All Rights Reserved © 2023