When Did Nature Burst Into Vivid Color?

By MOLLY HERRING

Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color vision needed to see them.

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GEOMETRY

A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up

By ELISE CUTTS

A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that's stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture."

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QUANTUM PHYSICS

Matter vs. Force: Why There Are Exactly Two Types of Particles

By MATT VON HIPPEL

Every elementary particle falls into one of two categories. Bosons account for the forces that move us. Fermions keep our atoms from collapsing.

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THE JOY OF WHY

How Does Graph Theory Shape Our World?

Podcast hosted by JANNA LEVIN
and STEVEN STROGATZ

Maria Chudnovsky reflects on her journey in graph theory, her groundbreaking solution to the long-standing perfect graph problem, and the unexpected ways this abstract field intersects with everyday life.

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THE QUANTA PODCAST

The Mysterious Math of Turbulence

Podcast hosted by SAMIR PATEL

Turbulence is a notoriously difficult phenomenon to study. Mathematicians are now starting to untangle it at its smallest scales. In this episode, math staff writer Joseph Howlett discusses his recent reporting on a phenomenon called "superdiffusion."

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