Astronomers are reveling in the James Webb Space Telescope’s discoveries about the formative epoch of cosmic history.

What is the deepest level of reality? In this Quanta explainer, Vijay Balasubramanian, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, takes us on a journey through space-time to investigate what it’s ...

Zdeborová now leads the Statistical Physics of Computation Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne.

A black hole formula worked out in the 1970s remains the most concrete clue physicists have about the threads of the space-time fabric.

Three researchers have figured out how to craft a proof that spreads out information while keeping it perfectly secret.

A mysterious phenomenon known as duality often leads to new discoveries in physics. This time, space-time itself can sometimes be two things at once.

At the heart of every galaxy lies one of the most mysterious objects in the universe: a supermassive black hole. Millions to billions of times the mass of our sun, these giants power astrophysical ...

Across the social and biological sciences, statisticians use a technique that leverages randomness to deal with the unknown.

Invisibly to us, insects and other tiny creatures use static electricity to travel, avoid predators, collect pollen and more.