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 ...

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

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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.

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day. No matter where you look, a bell curve is close by. Place a measuring cup in your ...

The last decade has seen vast improvements in humanoid robots, but graduating to widespread use might require going back to the fundamentals. “Not reliably,” Hurst said. “I don’t think it’s totally ...

Astrid Eichhorn spends her days thinking about how the laws of physics change at the tiniest scales. Imagine zooming in closer and closer to the device on which you’re reading this article. Its ...

At the dawn of complex life, evolution created a container for DNA, its most treasured item. A few billion years later, 20th-century microscopists looked at this container — the nucleus — up close and ...