Quanta

[:eu]Is the brain a blank slate, or is it wired from birth to understand the world? An ambitious new study put infants into an MRI machine to reveal a neural […]

[:eu]By folding fractals into 3-D objects, a mathematical duo hopes to gain new insight into simple equations.[:]

[:eu]Geochemical signals from deep inside Earth are beginning to shed light on the planet’s first 50 million years, a formative period long viewed as inaccessible to science.[:]

[:eu]Elena Aprile now leads the world’s most sensitive dark-matter search. But before she could build her first detector, she had to make herself out of titanium.[:]

[:eu]Physicists have failed to find disintegrating protons, throwing into limbo the beloved theory that the forces of nature were unified at the beginning of time.[:]

[:eu]Janet Conrad has a plan to catch the sterile neutrino — an elusive particle, possibly glimpsed by a number of experiments, that would upend what we know about the subatomic […]

[:eu]A proposed theory of gravity does away with dark matter, even as new astrophysical findings challenge the need for galaxies full of the invisible mystery particles.[:]

[:es]Recent discoveries have led some researchers to argue that the modern evolutionary synthesis needs to be amended.[:]

[:en]An unexpected connection has emerged between the results of physics experiments and an important, seemingly unrelated set of numbers in pure mathematics.[:]