A vast meshwork of soil-bound fungi governs life aboveground. In Alaska, and at field sites around the world, researchers are ...

In CERN’s high-temperature superconducting laboratory near Geneva, a wiring machine combines dozens of strands of niobium–tin ...

The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history — one mathematicians can learn from as they push to ...

Two research groups say they have significantly reduced the amount of qubits and time required to crack common online ...

Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being ...

Around the world, volcanologists are following the path of magma as it travels between connected volcanoes, in an effort that ...

The basic shape that best describes our expanding universe is also the hardest shape for physicists to understand.

Two research groups say they have significantly reduced the amount of qubits and time required to crack common online security technologies. A New Complexity Theory for the Quantum Age “Anomalous” ...

Extreme microorganisms carpeting the Atacama Desert in Chile illuminate how life might have first taken hold on Earth’s surface. Zack Savitsky is a science journalist who has written for Science, The ...

A $1 million prize awaits anyone who can show where the math of fluid flow breaks down. With specially trained AI systems, researchers have found a slew of new candidates in simpler versions of the ...

Physicists spotted a “terribly exciting” new black hole, doubled down on weakening dark energy, and debated the meaning of quantum mechanics. The supercollider is now being used to explore quantum ...