Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...

A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture. In 360 BCE, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an ...

For Woodin, the dream is to build an inner model that truly approximates V and therefore includes all the large cardinals. He calls it “Ultimate L.”It might seem like a hopeless task — after all, ...

Eric James Beyer is a science writer whose work explores the intersections of technology, the natural world, and human identity. He has written for Interesting Engineering, The Bosphorus Review ...

For Martin Schrimpf, the promise of artificial intelligence is not in the tasks it can accomplish.It’s in what AI might reveal about human intelligence. He is working to build a “digital twin” of the ...

Following the clues from black holes, physicists have pursued multiple approaches to understanding how space-time emerges from more microscopic components.The leading approach takes off from what’s ...

Quantum computers still can’t do much. Almost every time researchers have found something the high-tech machines should one day excel at, a classical algorithm comes along that can do it just as well ...

Physicists recently mapped the hidden shape that underlies the quantum behaviors of a crystal, using a new method that’s expected to become ubiquitous. Famously, at the quantum scale, particles can be ...

Quantum gravity could help physicists unite the currently incompatible worlds of quantum mechanics and gravity. In this episode, Monika Schleier-Smith discusses her pioneering experimental approach, ...

The brain’s energy comes in the form of the molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which cells make from glucose and oxygen. A tremendous expanse of thin capillaries — an estimated 400 miles of ...

Studies of neural metabolism reveal our brain’s effort to keep us alive and the evolutionary constraints that sculpted our most complex organ. Conor Feehly is a science writer based in New Zealand. He ...

In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last Theorem, a central problem in number theory that had remained open ...