Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay.

Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial ...

Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future. The Quanta ...

To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source.

Researchers got a better look at chatbots’ thoughts, amateurs learned just how complicated simple systems can be, and codes became expert self-fixers.

Biologists used artificial intelligence to make discoveries about molecules and the brain, and overturned long-held assumptions about the immune system and RNA.

Physicists discovered strange supersolids, constructed new kinds of superconductors, and continued to make the case that the ...