Quanta Magazine

New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities

Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important ...

New technologies like AI come with big claims – borrowing the scientific concept of validity can help cut through the hype

Scientists across all fields make various types of claims about their innovations. Validity tests check whether they deliver ...

String theory: scientists are trying new ways to verify the idea that could unite all of physics

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...

Predictable evolution: Surprising genetic parallels found in animals' separate journeys from water to land

Animals from completely different branches of the tree of life, such as insects, worms and vertebrates, independently evolved ...