Sometimes the biggest breakthroughs come from the simplest ideas. This video showcases the powerful little machine that’s transforming how we create, work, and innovate every day. From speed and ...

When you push or pull with a simple machine, you are applying a force and doing work. And, if you get more force out of a machine than you put into it, then that machine has a mechanical advantage.

Pound-for-pound, the human brain is the body’s most metabolically costly organ, consuming 20% of our energy and accounting for an outsize portion of our anatomy compared with most other animals.

She embodied something that feels rare in our modern world: the simple act of treating others — human or animal — with compassion. Lindsay L. Graff is a PhD student at the University of ...

It’s clobbering time for The Rock in The Smashing Machine, the new biopic about MMA fighter Mark Kerr, which opens in theaters this weekend. There’s no one better to play a ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Discovering that a paper contains data that appears to be fraudulent is an academic researcher’s nightmare. It leads to professional blacklisting, reevaluation of entire bodies of work, even a ...

August 29 - Four-time world champion Max Verstappen didn't get stressed by widespread speculation in recent months that he might leave Red Bull Racing for Mercedes in 2026. In fact, he said "it was ...

Behind the glamour of Formula 1 lies the harsh truth: these machines aren’t built for ordinary people. This analysis uncovers the science, training, and endurance that separate champions from amateurs ...