MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | ALL TOPICS

How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn't End It

By YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU

Three years ago, Google's AlphaFold pulled off the biggest artificial intelligence breakthrough in science to date, accelerating molecular research and kindling deep questions about why we do science.

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GEOMETRY

Why Is This Shape So Terrible to Pack?

By GREGORY BARBER

Two mathematicians have proved a long-standing conjecture that is a step on the way toward finding the worst shape for packing the plane.

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COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY

The Question of What's Fair Illuminates the Question of What's Hard

By LAKSHMI CHANDRASEKARAN

Computational complexity theorists have discovered a surprising new way to understand what makes certain problems hard.

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QUANTA SCIENCE PODCAST

New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain and Beyond

Podcast hosted by SUSAN VALOT;
Story by YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU

Recent efforts to map every cell in the human body have researchers floored by unfathomable diversity, with many thousands of subtly different types of cells in the human brain alone.

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