Best-selling books have bickered over the precise ratio—whether, say, 10,000 hours of practice trumps having the so-called ...

Security leaders discuss the rise of agentic AI, warning that autonomous agents operating at machine speed will require ...

Natural physical networks are continuous, three-dimensional objects, like the small mathematical model displayed here.

One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists to understand for the first time how and why certain materials conduct ...

Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...

More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his astonishing formulas for π in notebooks in India and England, ...

In 1914, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan published a short paper detailing several unusual formulas for calculating ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If ...

While many carmakers have turned to a screen-centric user interface in their vehicles, regular customers still want the convenience and safety of physical buttons. This encouraged aftermarket ...

Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If the board keeps going past the glass, as if it weren’t there, ...

Staying moving is an important part of healthy aging and independence. For many older adults, physical therapy can be a useful resource in this effort. Traditionally, people have viewed physical ...