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Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ...

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

After just a few months of work, a complete newcomer to the world of sphere packing has solved one of its biggest open problems.

An attack on a fundamental proof technique reveals a glaring security issue for blockchains and other digital encryption ...

By speedrunning ecosystems with microbes, researchers revealed intrinsic properties that may make a community susceptible to invasion.

Explore Quanta’s artificial intelligence coverage.AI may sound like a human, but that doesn’t mean that AI learns like a human. In this episode, Ellie Pavlick explains why understanding how LLMs can ...

David Kaplan explores the leading theories for the origin of life on our planet.

Mathematician Maggie Miller explores the strange and fascinating world of 4D topology — the study of shapes, or manifolds, that resemble flat Euclidean space when viewed up close.