It’s been difficult to find important questions that quantum computers can answer faster than classical machines, but a new ...

The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz and the astrophysicist and author Janna Levin interview leading researchers about the great scientific and mathematical questions of our time.

Consider a pencil lying on your desk. Try to spin it around so that it points once in every direction, but make sure it sweeps over as little of the desk’s surface as possible. You might twirl the ...

Steven Strogatz and Janna Levin return for a new season on major scientific and mathematical questions of our time, with 12 all-new episodes and a new format. How did complex life evolve? Where did ...

Physicists and marine biologists built a quantitative framework that predicts how coral polyps collectively construct a variety of coral shapes.

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

Larger models can pull off a wider variety of feats, but the reduced footprint of smaller models makes them attractive tools.

In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now ...

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