Quanta Magazine

The Computer Scientist Training AI to Think with Analogies

Melanie Mitchell says digital minds will never truly be like ours until they can make analogies

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