A popular hypothesis for how the brain clears molecular waste, which may help explain why sleep feels refreshing, is a ...

Randomness is essential to some research, but it’s always been prohibitively complicated to achieve. Now, we can use ...

A growing body of work suggests that cell metabolism — the chemical reactions that provide energy and building materials — ...

Randomness is essential to some research, but it’s always been prohibitively complicated. Now, we can use “pseudorandomness” instead. Webb Wright is a journalist based in Brooklyn, New York, who ...

Last spring, a team of nearly 1,000 cosmologists announced that dark energy — the enigmatic agent propelling the universe to swell in size at an ever-increasing rate — might be slackening. The ...

Cells in our bodies are constantly dying — and these countless tiny deaths are essential to human health and multicellular life itself. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with cellular ...

Momentum for new ideas in Alzheimer’s research joined advances in neuroscience, developmental biology and origin-of-life studies to make 2022 a memorable year of biological insights. The Quanta ...

A mysterious phenomenon known as duality often leads to new discoveries in physics. This time, space-time itself can sometimes be two things at once. The Logic That Must Lie Behind a New Physics The ...

One of the most important events in the history of life on Earth was the emergence of multicellularity. In this episode, Will Ratcliff discusses how his snowflake yeast models provide insight into ...