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 ...

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

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

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

Off the coast of Japan, biologists netted a pea-size jellyfish with an unusual circadian clock — a chance finding that ...

Off the coast of Japan, biologists netted a pea-size jellyfish with an unusual circadian clock — a chance finding that suggests there are likely more overlooked biological timekeeping mechanisms to be ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover examines the latest developments in the “forever war” over whether string theory can describe the ...

Promise and controversy continues to surround string theory as a potential unified theory of everything. In the latest episode of The Joy of Why, Cumrun Vafa discusses his progress in trying to find ...

In a year filled with sweet new observations in astronomy and tantalizing breakthroughs in condensed matter physics, the brand-new space telescope takes the cake.

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 ...