In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now ...

Rare and powerful compounds, known as keystone molecules, can build a web of invisible interactions among species.

A new proof extends the work of the late Maryam Mirzakhani, cementing her legacy as a pioneer of alien mathematical realms.

Physicists and marine biologists built a quantitative framework that predicts how coral polyps collectively construct a ...

By training machine learning models with examples of basic science, Miles Cranmer hopes to push the pace of scientific ...

Physicists hope that understanding the churning region near singularities might help them reconcile gravity and quantum ...

Today’s AI largely lives in computers, but acting and reacting in the real world — that’s the realm of robots. In this week’s episode, co-host Steven Strogatz talks with pioneering roboticist Daniela ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab. All modern multicellular ...