Every second, hundreds to thousands of molecules move through thousands of nuclear pores in each of your cells. A new high-definition view reveals the machine in action.

A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical ...

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

Baez called for the development of new mathematics — he called it “green” math — to better capture the workings of Earth’s biosphere and climate. For his part, he sought to apply category theory, a ...

Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

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It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A broad new method can help settle this ancient question.

Physicists are reexamining a longstanding assumption: that big stuff consists of smaller stuff.

The Fields medalist Vladimir Voevodsky has died at 51. This 2015 article describes his computer-aided quest to eliminate human error and rewrite the century-old rules ...

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 ...