IntroductionAlbert Einstein’s general theory of relativity has been wildly successful at describing how gravity works and how it shapes the large-scale structure of the...
Table of contents In statistics, covariance and correlation are two mathematical notions. Both phrases are used to describe the relationship between two...
Methane (CH4) is a major anthropogenic greenhouse gas that‘s a by-product of oil and gas extraction, coal mining, large-scale animal farming, and waste disposal,...
IntroductionIt’s been more than 40 years since the physicist Richard Feynman pointed out that building computing devices based on quantum principles could unlock powers...
IntroductionSome scientific discoveries matter because they reveal something new — the double helical structure of DNA, for example, or the existence of black holes....
IntroductionIn mathematics, a simple problem is often not what it seems. Earlier this summer, Quanta reported on one such problem: What is the smallest...
