Quanta MagazineScienceDetailed Footage Finally Reveals What Triggers LightningBy Thomas LewtonScienceAt the Dawn of Life, Heat May Have Driven Cell DivisionBy Carrie ArnoldScienceThe Algorithm That Lets Particle Physicists Count Higher Than 2By Charlie WoodScienceCosmologists Close in on Logical Laws for the Big BangBy Charlie WoodScienceGravitational Waves Should Permanently Distort SpacetimeBy Katie McCormickScienceThe Great Neutrino Mystery Could Point to Missing ParticlesBy Thomas LewtonScienceYour Brain Is an Energy-Efficient 'Prediction Machine'By Anil AnanthaswamyScienceA New Theory for Systems That Defy Newton’s Third LawBy Stephen OrnesScienceSponge Genes Hint at the Origins of Neurons and Other CellsBy Viviane CallierScienceMathematicians Finally Prove That Melting Ice Stays SmoothBy Mordechai RorvigScienceNeuron Bursts Can Mimic a Famous AI Learning StrategyBy Allison WhittenScienceHow Wavelets Let Researchers Transform and Understand DataBy Alexander HellemansScience‘Impossible’ Particle Adds a Piece to the Strong Force PuzzleBy Charlie WoodScienceA Huge Subterranean ‘Tree’ Is Moving Magma to Earth’s SurfaceBy Robin George AndrewsScienceA Mathematician Answers a 150-Year-Old Chess ProblemBy Leila SlomanScienceThe Complex Truth About ‘Junk DNA’By Jake BuehlerScienceA Mathematician's Guided Tour Through Higher DimensionsBy David S. RichesonScienceHow Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron?By Allison WhittenScienceTo Learn More Quickly, Brain Cells Break Their DNABy Jordana CepelewiczScienceComputer Scientists Find a Key Research Algorithm's LimitsBy Nick ThiemeScienceHow Big Data Carried Graph Theory Into New DimensionsBy Stephen OrnesScienceAnimals Can Count. How Far Does Their Number Sense Go?By Jordana CepelewiczScienceA Failed Star Called 'The Accident' Puzzles AstronomersBy Jonathan O’CallaghanScienceFractons, the Weirdest Matter, Could Yield Quantum CluesBy Thomas LewtonMore Stories