Quanta Magazine

To Invent a Quantum Internet

The physicist and computer scientist Stephanie Wehner is planning and designing the next internet—a quantum one

Quantum computers are improving at a doubly exponential rate

The rainbow of pigments that animals use for blood illustrates a central truth about evolution

Biologists have demonstrated for the first time that a controversial genetic engineering technology works, with caveats, in mammals

Neither animal, plant, fungus nor familiar protozoan, a strange microbe foretells incredible biodiversity yet to be discovered

With proteins that reversibly self-assemble into droplets, cells may control their metabolism—and harden themselves against harsh conditions

The first animal genus defined purely by genetic characters represents a new era for the sorting and naming of animals

Researchers make significant progress toward proving a critical mathematical test of the theory of general relativity

Some species have the equivalent of many more than two sexes, but most do not. A new model suggests the reason depends on how often they mate

With a fully sequenced genome in hand, scientists hope they are finally poised to learn how axolotls regenerate lost body parts