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The new experiments suggest that simple models can explain the behavior of thousands of interacting organisms.

As physicists extend the 19th-century laws of thermodynamics to the quantum realm, they’re rewriting the relationships among energy, entropy and information.

Quanta unveils a completely re-engineered and redesigned site to better serve our readers and the journalism we produce.

Angela Olinto’s new balloon experiment takes her one step closer to the unknown source of the most energetic particles in the universe.

There’s more than one good way to bring order to our unruly, seemingly arbitrary calendar.

Trash collectors in the cell moonlight at the controls of the genetic machinery.

The computational biologist John Novembre uses our genetic code to rewrite the history of humanity.

After a surprise discovery, astrophysicists are racing to understand superenergetic flashes of radio waves that sometimes beep out from distant galaxies.

Ramsey’s theorem predicts a surprising (and useful) consistency in the organization of graphs. Here’s a simple visual proof of how it works.