MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS | ALL TOPICS

Mathematicians Prove Hawking Wrong About the Most Extreme Black Holes

By STEVE NADIS

For decades, extremal black holes were considered mathematically impossible. A new proof reveals otherwise.

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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

How Colorful Ribbon Diagrams Became the Face of Proteins

By YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU

Proteins are often visualized as cascades of curled ribbons and twisted strings, which both reveal and conceal the mess of atoms that make up these impossibly complex molecules.

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FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS

Diminishing Dark Energy May Evade the 'Swampland' of Impossible Universes

By STEVE NADIS

The largest-ever 3D map of the cosmos hints that the dark energy that's fueling the universe's expansion may be weakening. One community of physicists expected this.

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QUANTA SCIENCE PODCAST

Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton

Podcast hosted by SUSAN VALOT;
Story by CHARLIE WOOD

Experiments that use light to mimic gravity reveal the distribution of energies, forces and pressures inside a subatomic particle.

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