Biologists have spent generations trying to explain what controls the speed of life. You may already be familiar with the ...

A new framework called Falcon, developed by Unnikrishnan Cheramangalath, is revolutionizing graph analytics. This ...

When you get your first office job, you learn a whole new language. Suddenly, you’re being schooled on your team’s “workflow,” being forced to declare if you have the “bandwidth” to take on a new ...

A mixture of two types of pigment-producing cells undergoes diffusiophoretic transport to self-assemble into a hexagonal pattern. Credit: Siamak Mirfendereski and Ankur Gupta/CU Boulder A zebra’s ...

X-ray beams aren't used just by doctors to see inside your body and tell whether you have a broken bone. More powerful beams made up of very short flashes of X-rays can help scientists peer into the ...

Lead times for medium- and low-voltage (MV/LV) switchgear, transformers, and other major pieces of electrical infrastructure now average over 60 weeks. To keep data center projects on schedule, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

In F.I.D.E. (Fédération Internationale des √âchecs) chess, a player loses the game if they run out of time (flagging), unless the position is such that their opponent cannot checkmate them with any ...

Quantum technologies are systems that can compute data, sense their surrounding environment or perform other functions leveraging quantum mechanical effects. Connecting these technologies over long ...

Jimmy Kimmel's transgression was real and severe. But it was not suitable for government engagement. Some downtime, maybe. It certainly was no remote business of the president. It was entirely the ...

The initial public offering market has had a sizzling summer, with stellar debuts from crypto and tech firms such as Circle Internet Group, Figma, Bullish, and Figure. But there may be some cracks in ...