Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields ...

Shayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms.

John Pardon sees connections between different areas of math that others don’t. For that vision, he’s now been awarded a ...

The biologist’s bold “energetic view of life” looks to the body’s strangest organelles as the link between cells, health, and ...

Extremophiles that thrive in the most unforgiving environments aren’t just biological curiosities. Understanding their ...

Kevin Hartnett was the senior writer at Quanta Magazine covering mathematics and computer science. His work has been collected in multiple volumes of the “Best Writing on Mathematics” series.

Before he won a Fields Medal for his pioneering work balancing randomness and order, Yu Deng first had to achieve equilibrium ...

Today’s computers need safeguards against random energy fluctuations. Thermodynamic computers would put those fluctuations to ...

W hen I was first learning to write, my letters and words ran from right to left, reversed as if in a mirror. Being ...

Physicists spotted a “terribly exciting” new black hole, doubled down on weakening dark energy, and debated the meaning of quantum mechanics. Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents ...

Remarkably preserved fossils found in southern China offer a fascinating window into what life looked like at the end of the Cambrian explosion, with half of the species uncovered being new to science ...