To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source.

Three new species of superconductivity were spotted this year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to ...

While some fret about technology’s social impacts, Raj Reddy still believes in the power of artificial intelligence to ...

The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well.

In a first, researchers have shown that adding more “qubits” to a quantum computer can make it more resilient. It’s an essential step on the long road to practical applications. Three new species of ...

We often consider spoken language to be a feature that distinguishes humans from other forms of animal life. Brain research, however, suggests that other creatures — including certain birds — share ...

Three high schoolers and their mentor revisited a century-old theorem to prove that all knots can be found in a fractal called the Menger sponge. In the fall of 2021, Malors Espinosa set out to devise ...

The clearest picture yet of our “last universal common ancestor” suggests it was a relatively complex organism living 4.2 billion years ago, a time long considered too harsh for life to flourish. If ...

The reference frames from which observers view quantum events can themselves have multiple possible locations at once — an insight with potentially major ramifications. Imagine standing on a railway ...