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

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

Explore Quanta’s black holes coverage.A team of mathematicians based in Vienna is developing tools to extend the scope of general relativity.

Investigations of the simplest possible clocks have revealed their fundamental limitations — as well as insights into the nature of time itself.

A 1930s-era breakthrough is helping physicists understand how quantum threads could weave together into a holographic space-time fabric.

Physicists have ruled out a mundane explanation for the strange findings of an old Soviet experiment, leaving open the possibility that the results point to a new fundamental particle.

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.

Scarlett Howard teaches math to honeybees. She began with a few hives on a concrete balcony at RMIT University in Melbourne, when she was a doctoral candidate in zoology. Today, at the University of ...