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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

About the author Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist based at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies in Frankfurt, Germany. She frequently writes about foundational issues in physics ...