Is self-enclosure life’s greatest trick? According to the lipid-first theory of the origin of life, a cell membrane gave ...

Some believe the earliest life emerged from self-copying molecules that could mutate and even evolve. But that may not have been enough. Click to tell Google to prioritize Quanta and see more of the ...

Albert Einstein fought to save our everyday notion of reality from the strangeness of quantum mechanics. But those who set ...

By injecting “thoughts” directly into large language models, researchers are trying to map out AI’s capacity for ...

Dig a little deeper and you’ll find a thriving research program with exotic atoms that won’t solve the energy crisis but ...

For decades, astronomers treated the interstellar medium as a static backdrop to the goings-on of the universe. Now, a wave ...

A spider, when knocked off a wall, doesn’t fall for long. Within milliseconds, it spins a soup of proteins into sturdy climbing gear. Using a thin, shimmering strand of silk, the spider hauls itself ...

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.

In the first episode of the new season of ‘The Joy of Why,’ Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna discusses how she discovered CRISPR’s genome-editing power, the breakthroughs and hurdles during its ...