Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.

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Quanta Books is delighted to announce two new upcoming books by mathematician Terence Tao and theoretical physicist David ...

A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

Time travel is deterministic and locally free, a paper says —resolving an age-old paradox. This follows research observing ...

Ramanujan's pi-computing machinery exactly mirrors the necessary structure in modern physical theories (LCFTs).

Quantum 2.0: The Weird Physics Driving a New Revolution in Technology by Paul Davies (Feb. 6, $26, ISBN 978-0-226-84932-4) ...

Before Einstein, before Bohr, there was a Jesuit priest with a telescope and a startlingly modern vision of the universe.

For centuries, mathematicians have categorized infinities into a kind of ladder. The infinite set of natural numbers (1, 2, 3 ...