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The Simons Foundation and publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux announce the launch of Quanta Books, a partnership imprint led by Thomas Lin, the founding editor of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Quanta ...

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

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President Trump has placed an indefinite suspension on research grant reviews and travel at the National Institutes of Health ...

Imagine the tree of life. The tip of every branch represents one species, and if you follow any two branches back through ...

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...