What’s Going On Inside Io, Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon? | Quanta Magazine
Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and...
Can Quantum Gravity Be Created in the Lab? | Quanta Magazine
Quantum gravity could help physicists unite the currently incompatible worlds of quantum mechanics and gravity. In...
‘Paraparticles’ Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle | Quanta Magazine
A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle —...
Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex | Quanta Magazine
A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the...
The Road Map to Alien Life Passes Through the ‘Cosmic Shoreline’ | Quanta Magazine
Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first,...
‘Next-Level’ Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability | Quanta Magazine
In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now...
How Hans Bethe Stumbled Upon Perfect Quantum Theories | Quanta Magazine
Quantum calculations amount to sophisticated estimates. But in 1931, Hans Bethe intuited precisely how a chain...
How Noether’s Theorem Revolutionized Physics | Quanta Magazine
Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century...
Cosmologists Try a New Way to Measure the Shape of the Universe | Quanta Magazine
Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but...
Heat Destroys All Order. Except for in This One Special Case. | Quanta Magazine
Heat is supposed to ruin anything it touches. But physicists have shown that an idealized form...
The Physicist Decoding the Nonbinary Nature of the Subatomic World | Quanta Magazine
Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are...